The Downdraft Workstation uses quiet but speedy downward airflow to capture crumbs and particulates during food prep and eating in space. Floating debris flow down and stick to the porous tabletop where they are vacuumed away later.
Microgravity pelvic stability saddles, on the left and right, replace space station foot loops and enable fine two-handed dexterity needed for cooking, repair and science.
Home made Pizza from fresh space grown mushrooms, bell peppers, freeze dried sausage, and cheese with a tangy tomato sauce on a crispy wheat and cheese crust. Pizza like this, or your own special favorite, can be quickly and easily made in 20 minutes; even millions of miles from home, using ingredients that are shelf stable many years into a mission.
Fresh savory Quiche made from dried egg crystals, tomatoes, chives, mushroom, and dill ingredients with a toasted, freeze dried cheese and almond flour crust. Full of protein, fats, vitamins, carbs, texture, and flavor.
Robyn Gatens, Director of the International Space Station looks on as a quiche is drawn from SATED during NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge.
Photo: NASA/Savannah Bullard
Moist, delicious Lemon Cake with frosting, sprinkles*, and safe LED candles for a special shared celebration with someone back home or a crew mates birthday.
*See Tidy reference below.
Crispy Persian Tahdig made with slow simmered** rice, saffron, and a little oil, for an ethnic delicacy in zero-G.
**Note that SATED’s unique centrifugal cooker simmers and boils foods with ease.
Space crews and explorers will relish fresh healthy foods, creative culinary expression and community with every shared meal. On the ground, everyone from students to politicians will understand the reality of commercializing space where anyone will still be able to savor their own personal favorites from home.
Boiling in space has been regarded as impossible. However, by using the artificial gravity provided by centripetal acceleration, common Earth functions like boiling food, generating steam, dehydration and distillation can be easily accomplished.
The figure at left shows water boiling under an artificial gravity of 3 G’s, a rotor surface temperature of 96 C and a heat flux of approximately 6 watts/cm2. Note that this experiment was run at Boulder, Colorado’s altitude of 1650 meters where water boiling occurs at only 94°C.
The figure on the right shows boiling at an artificial gravity of 20 G’s and the same heat flux of 6 watts/cm2. Note that the bubbles are much smaller, the surface is smoother and the rotor surface temperature is only 95 because the artificial gravity makes the bubbles smaller.
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Sated Space LLC: Ascent Technology LLC is now SATED Space LLC.
Mission: Enable travelers, crews and explorers the means and ability to safely cook and share familiar comfort and healthy foods in deep space, on board orbiting platforms, and inside habitats on the Moon and Mars.
Intellectual Property: Artificial Gravity Heating Device US 11,918,142 (issued), Artificial Gravity Heating Device US 2024/0206674 (publication), and Workstation for Microgravity Environments US 2024/0067367 (publication), plus others.