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00:00Welcome back, everyone, for our last pitch before lunchtime.
00:05And this one is going to be very interesting.
00:08It's all about growing life in space.
00:11And to start up here to demonstrate this are called Interstellar Lab,
00:14who will unveil its BioPod and other innovations
00:18working toward a smarter, more sustainable and realistic future in space,
00:24but also on Earth.
00:26Because obviously this technology can be adapted for applications
00:30which we need here on planet Earth.
00:34So discover how space exploration constraints can become incredible resources
00:38for contemporary challenges.
00:42Barbara, Interstellar Labs.
00:54Hi, everyone. Hello.
00:57I'm very happy to be with you today.
00:59So I'm going to talk a little bit more about Interstellar Lab.
01:02So we are a U.S.-French company located between Paris,
01:07Sivre-sur-Seine, Houston, Florida, and L.A.
01:11We're working on developing climates, environmentally controlled systems
01:14to deploy them on Earth and in space.
01:18So the purpose of the company is to grow life anywhere.
01:21So what if you'll go to another planet, to anywhere,
01:24and you would like to grow some plants?
01:26And this is what we're working on.
01:27And to grow life anywhere and to grow any type of life.
01:31So our vision is that becoming a multi-planetary species
01:34is one of the most exciting future that we can dream of
01:38for the future of humanity.
01:40But one might ask the question of what is the point?
01:43What is the point of bringing life to other planets
01:45if we cannot protect life that we have on Earth right now?
01:49So as a company, Interstellar, over those past four years,
01:52we've been working on building controlled environmental modules,
01:56modules that you can deploy anywhere, anywhere on Earth
01:59for sustainable farming and biodiversity conservation,
02:03but also that you can bring in space.
02:05So we work with several groups like NASA, ESA,
02:10the French space agencies to deploy our pods on the moon
02:13and the future on Martian mission.
02:16Our roadmap is for this year to unveil our first product,
02:20which is called the BioPod.
02:21Actually, we have a booth here, H28,
02:24where you can see a 3D model of the pod deployable,
02:28a deployable system.
02:30So it's, and it's, and we plan to unveil the product this year.
02:34It's actually been built right now at Ivry-sur-Seine.
02:37The second, the second target is low Earth orbit.
02:40So we work with space station to put our system into low Earth orbit.
02:44So attach a module that should put next to the space station
02:47to grow plants so we can provide food for astronauts
02:49and we can help push for research in microgravity environments.
02:55Then we're also planning on putting our system on the moon.
02:58So the lunar pod is planned for 2027.
03:01For that, we have a very big partnership with NASA,
03:03working on adapting our terrestrial system
03:06so we can put that on the moon.
03:08We're part of the Artemis program.
03:09And for Mars, of course, we're working with great people
03:12and we have very good relationship with companies like SpaceX
03:15to put our system inside the Starship.
03:18So we'll be the first one to put a greenhouse on Mars.
03:22The first product today we're unveiling is called the BioPod.
03:25So the BioPod, we call it the future of farming on Earth.
03:28It's a completely sealed system,
03:30one of the most advanced indoor farm on Earth, actually.
03:34So it's composed of a...
03:36Maybe you can see here.
03:37Yeah, so it's 11 meters long, 5 meters high,
03:41so it's much higher than this, and 6 meters wide.
03:44So it's pretty big.
03:45The composite base, which is the shell of the structural shell of the pod,
03:49is actually my size.
03:52And inside the composite shell,
03:54you find all the hydraulic and atmospheric system.
03:56On top of that, we put the growing system,
03:59aeroponics that we've been designing ourselves,
04:01where we can grow a lot of different species
04:04and a lot of different plants.
04:05Then you have the inflated membrane that covers the entire pod.
04:08So the pod is completely sealed with an airlock
04:11and completely inflated.
04:13So we recreate this little overpressure
04:15that is allowing us to have a pathogen-free environment.
04:19Inside the pod, we recycle all the water.
04:22So it's like a small space station.
04:23We capture the water that is inside the pod,
04:27evapotranspirating through the plants,
04:28and we put that back into our system,
04:30and we purify it and we put it with nutrient solution.
04:33We also have CO2 scrubber.
04:35So most of the green...
04:36Actually, all the greenhouses on Earth
04:39use CO2 tank to boost photosynthesis of plants.
04:44We don't.
04:45We use CO2 that is actually available on this planet
04:48instead of burning carbon.
04:49So we suck the CO2 from the atmosphere
04:51and we push it inside the pod
04:53so we can accelerate the photosynthesis.
04:55So we boost the level of CO2 inside the pod
04:57up to 3,000 ppm.
05:00I'm not sure it speaks to you.
05:01On Earth right now, it's around 440 ppm
05:04and plants can be very, very active
05:06passing 1,500 is actually one of the good level.
05:12So we capture CO2, we recycle all the water,
05:15we use very, very little amount of water
05:16and we reduce energy needs.
05:19One of the main criticisms that has been done
05:20into indoor farming is the fact that it uses LED
05:23and it consumes a lot of energy.
05:25So by recreating a completely sealed environment
05:28and developing a membrane that is partially transparent,
05:32we are taking some light from the sun
05:35and also we are using less power
05:37to recreate the climate that we need inside.
05:40So we reduce energy needs
05:41and we preserve biodiversity.
05:43Because it's very advanced atmospheric control,
05:46we can pretty much recreate any type of climate.
05:48so meaning we've been growing actually,
05:50the first species we've been growing
05:52are endemic species from Madagascar.
05:54So we recreate specific climates
05:56that no one can recreate in any indoor farm.
05:59So you can grow plants
06:00that are disappearing on this planet.
06:03So the purpose of the pod is,
06:04so it's a hardware,
06:05but most importantly,
06:07we know how to grow plants.
06:09So we are not just selling you a hardware
06:10and then ta-da, do whatever you want to do with it.
06:14We're actually helping our customers
06:16grow plants inside.
06:18So what our agronomist team has been doing
06:20in our lab in Ivry-sur-Seine
06:22is take steam plants and growing plants
06:24in controlled environment condition.
06:26So we are building the biggest,
06:27the largest catalog of species
06:29and we know the recipe on how to grow them.
06:32So we've been focusing on root plants.
06:34We do vetiver, we do iris,
06:36we do a lot of root plants.
06:38It works very well.
06:39On the flower,
06:40one of my favorite flower
06:41is actually called the periwrinkle from Madagascar.
06:44It's the first one we grow in our system.
06:46It's a flower that produces a molecule
06:48that is used to fight against cancer,
06:51vincristine and vinblastine.
06:53By optimizing the environmental condition inside the pod,
06:56we can increase the production of this molecule.
06:59So the use case of the pod,
07:00you see, it's much more than food.
07:02It's also pharmaceutical and cosmetics,
07:04molecular farming in school.
07:05Fruits, we're growing passion fruits.
07:07We have gooseberries at the office that we can eat,
07:10that we are harvesting from our system.
07:12vegetables, pretty much anything you want.
07:14Even small trees,
07:16because we've been designing 3D printed support
07:19to help the tree grow inside the pod.
07:22The customers,
07:23so mostly pharmaceutical, cosmetics,
07:25and perfume industry,
07:26our biggest clients right now.
07:28We help them when it comes to sourcing of specific plants.
07:31We help them for molecular farming
07:32by optimizing the condition
07:34so the plant can grow much more molecule
07:36inside its leaves of flower.
07:39We have a lot of partnership
07:39with universities and research centers,
07:42mostly in United States and UK.
07:46Looking forward to build mold here in France.
07:48We work in UK with Oxford.
07:50In the US, we work with Cornell, Purdue.
07:53We also have Stanford.
07:54So we work toward creating specific environments
07:57to preserve biodiversity
07:58and also growing plants in a controlled environment.
08:02And of course, farmers and food industry,
08:04we're pretty big in the Middle East.
08:06we're deploying our first system
08:07at the end of next year.
08:08And it's everything related to food production.
08:12Space.
08:13And so that was the product for Earth
08:15that we're unveiling this year.
08:17When it comes to space,
08:18we've also been developing a different system.
08:21This one is called Nucleus.
08:22It's exactly the same thing than Biopod.
08:25It's just it's a combination of square.
08:27But it's a controlled environment
08:28inside which we can grow any type of plants.
08:31This one, we actually want a phase one for NASA.
08:34So we want the first contract.
08:36We currently prototyping it in our lab,
08:38which is at Kennedy Space Center.
08:40And it's going to be unveiled around September, October.
08:44The second one that we're working on with,
08:46it's confidential,
08:48so I cannot share the names of the company we're working with.
08:50but we're developing an inflatable module
08:53to be plugged into the International Space Station.
08:56So we're taking care of the hardware system
08:59to grow plants and all the automation
09:02and all the software in the interface.
09:04So at Interstellar, we're full stack.
09:06We do everything.
09:07The design, the software, the data, the optimization.
09:09And that's why NASA likes us
09:11because we're a one-stop shop
09:12and most of their company they're working with,
09:16they only do hardware.
09:18The Lunar Pods.
09:19So for the Lunar Pod,
09:20we have a big umbrella agreement with NASA.
09:24We're also looking forward to build something
09:26with ESA and the CNES on this.
09:28But basically, we're doing the adaptation
09:30of the Biopod for lunar environments.
09:32So we'll change a bit the material.
09:34We change the water system.
09:36it's different gravity, it's different environments.
09:39But it's a working progress
09:42and the target is 2027.
09:44Pretty much looking, really looking forward to this.
09:47I'm not talking about Mars here
09:48because we're very dependent on Starship
09:52and where SpaceX goes.
09:54So there's going to be an adaptation
09:55of our Biopods so it can be put into Starship.
09:58We work with NASA, CNES.
09:59Dassault System is a very, very big partner for us.
10:02We've been using their software to do our design
10:04and to do all our simulation.
10:06And we've been through two acceleration programs.
10:09One is called Space Founders
10:10and the other one is Starburst based in the US.
10:13Greg O'Tree that you can see on this picture
10:16is one of our board of directors.
10:18He was the former representative of NASA
10:20at the White House
10:21and nominated CFO at NASA last year.
10:24Investors, we raised $7 million to date.
10:27We are a team of 30 people
10:29and we're onboarding more investors right now.
10:32And yeah, pretty cool people.
10:36We have a great team, 30 people in Ivry-sur-Seine.
10:40Those are some pictures from our lab
10:41where our team has been testing different types of plants.
10:45Here you can see our gooseberries.
10:48It's called Coeur en cage in French.
10:50Very hard to grow.
10:51We're growing them, tons of them actually.
10:53Those are passion fruits also that we're growing at the lab.
10:57This is a very beautiful peri-wrinkle flower
11:00that is used in pharmaceuticals.
11:02Industry, marigold.
11:03Marigold that we grow a lot as well
11:05for perfume industry.
11:07Some of our team members,
11:09our very healthy, big roots.
11:12And yeah, some of the team-built buildings.
11:14So we did a lot of prototype.
11:16We used a lot of 3D printing as well.
11:18And we moved into production.
11:20So we have over 70 orders of the pods.
11:22We're manufacturing the first 10 this year.
11:24For the pods, you can see it gives you
11:27the size of the beasts.
11:29It's not a small pod.
11:30It's not something I can put here.
11:32It's really, really big.
11:33So that's only one of the parts of the base.
11:36There are five different parts.
11:38We use infused resin composites.
11:42This is the base just before part of the base,
11:44just before it arrived at the office.
11:47It arrived at the anger actually last week.
11:49Unfortunately, we're a little bit late.
11:52There's a little bit of delay.
11:53So we couldn't bring it to VivaTech,
11:57but that's going to be for next year.
11:58But that was last week in Ivry-sur-Seine.
12:01And we are mounting it.
12:03So we're waiting for the other components.
12:05everything is going to be assembled
12:06by the end of July.
12:08And we'll do an unveil early August.
12:10Thank you so much for your time.
12:12Thank you very much, Barbara.
12:14And Stella Labs, where can we find you, by the way?
12:16Where are you?
12:17So we are age 28.
12:18Age 28, which is over there?
12:20Just over there.
12:21Okay.
12:21Yes, just here.
12:22Great.
12:23Thank you.
12:23See you.
12:24Bye.
12:25All right, that's it.
12:25We're done for the next hour.
12:27We're going to have lunch.
12:28And there's...
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