SATED Space LLC has developed a patent-protected cooking appliance that utilizes a heated tubular rotor to create artificial gravity, enabling safe cooking in microgravity environments such as the International Space Station and future lunar or Martian habitats. This technology addresses the challenge of preparing familiar, nutritious meals in space, allowing astronauts to enjoy home-cooked food using shelf-stable ingredients.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Astronauts on long-duration space missions currently rely on pre-packaged, shelf-stable meals, which can lack the nutritional variety and psychological comfort of home-cooked food. Preparing familiar, nutritious meals in microgravity environments presents challenges due to the lack of gravity for traditional cooking methods and the need to contain food particles.
Solution
SATED Space has developed a cooking appliance that uses a heated tubular rotor to create artificial gravity, enabling safe and efficient cooking in microgravity environments. The SATED cooker utilizes centripetal acceleration to press food ingredients against a heated inner surface, allowing for frying, boiling, simmering, baking, mixing, layering, weighing, and toasting. This technology allows astronauts to prepare fresh, healthy foods from shelf-stable ingredients, enhancing their culinary experience and overall well-being during space missions. The system also includes a downdraft workstation to capture any floating particles, ensuring a tidy and safe cooking environment.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes space agencies, astronauts, and organizations involved in long-duration space missions, as well as researchers and developers focused on food technology for space exploration.
Features
- Heated tubular rotor that generates artificial gravity through centripetal acceleration
- Precisely controlled temperature limits to prevent burning or smoking of ingredients
- Downdraft workstation to capture airborne particulates during food preparation
- Touch screen indicator to show when ingredients are pasteurized
- Ability to fry, boil, simmer, bake, mix, layer, weigh, and toast food ingredients
- Can create flavor reactions such as Maillard reaction, protein binding, gelatinization, cell rupture, and caramelization
- Microgravity stabilization saddles for comfortable and firm astronaut stability