Adaptive environmental control for optimal results during plant microgravity experiments

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 51, Issue 1-9, 2002, Pages 213-220

  Kostov, P ^a   Ivanova, T ^a   Dandolov, I ^a   Sapunova, S ^a   Ilieva, I ^a  

^a Faculty of Physics Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; GRAVITATION; GROWTH KINETICS; MOISTURE; MONITORING; ORBITS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SPACE STATIONS;

GAS EXCHANGE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS (GEMS); INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS); MICROGRAVITY; SPACE GREENHOUSE (SG);

SPACE RESEARCH;

ARTICLE; BRASSICA; BULGARIA; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LONG DURATION; MANNED; MICROCLIMATE; MIR PROJECT; PLANT; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPACE FLIGHT; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WHEAT;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; LONG DURATION; MANNED; MIR PROJECT;

BRASSICA; BULGARIA; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, CLOSED; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; PLANTS, EDIBLE; RUSSIA; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; TRITICUM; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLES; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0038412527     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(02)00051-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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