Mission to Mars? Vertical Future to develop prototype for growing crops in space

Michael Holder
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Credit: ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space
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Credit: ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space

Vertical Future wins £1.5m UK Space Agency grant to design system for growing crops in commercial space station

Vertical Future has been awarded £1.5m from the UK Space Agency to boldly go where no British vertical farming company has gone before: to develop agricultural technologies for potential use beyond the...

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