Tag: HOBI-WAN


  • ESA Tests Bacterial Powder to Feed Moon and Mars Crews with HOBI-WAN Plan

    ESA Tests Bacterial Powder to Feed Moon and Mars Crews with HOBI-WAN Plan

    ESA Trials Bacterial Powder for Deep-Space Nutrition The European Space Agency (ESA) is pushing a bold, science-fiction-inspired route to sustain astronauts on long-duration missions. In a project codenamed HOBI-WAN (Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria In Weightlessness As a source of Nutrition), researchers are testing a powdered bacterial product designed to serve as a scalable food source for…

  • ESA Tests Bacterial Powder to Feed Moon and Mars Crews

    ESA Tests Bacterial Powder to Feed Moon and Mars Crews

    ESA Aims to Feed Astronauts on the Moon and Mars The European Space Agency (ESA) is advancing a bold approach to space nutrition with a project that has captured attention for its quirky acronym: HOBI-WAN – Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria In Weightlessness As a source of Nutrition. The initiative investigates whether a specially prepared bacterial powder…

  • HOBI-WAN: ESA tests bacteria powder for space nutrition

    HOBI-WAN: ESA tests bacteria powder for space nutrition

    ESA pioneers a new kind of space nutrition The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced a bold step in the quest to sustain astronauts on extended lunar and Martian missions. In a project cheekily dubbed HOBI-WAN (Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria In Weightlessness As a source of Nutrition), scientists are testing a powdered form of microscopic life…