SVET plant growth system

Space greenhouse on the Kristall module of the space station Mir From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

SVET (Russian: свет, "light") was a plant cultivation unit on the Kristall module of the Mir space station. It was installed in 1990 and operated until 2001.[1] Brassica rapa was successfully grown there in 1997.[2][3]

Sketch of the Kristall module indicating the position of the SVET Greenhouse

The project was a joint Russian-Bulgarian one, developed at the Space Research and Technology Institute in Sofia.[4]

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