🌍🚀 AJX BioSphere Milestone III: Toward Autonomous Life Support Systems for Space

Gavriel Wayenberg
Aug 1
2 min read

Published: August 1st, 2025

Ajinomatrix is proud to unveil the third major public milestone in our AJX BioSphere (AJXBS) program — a breakthrough in circular, autonomous food production for space and extreme environments.

🔁 From Earth prototypes to orbital ambitions, we’re building more than smart greenhouses: we’re engineering Life Support Systems (LSS) designed for daily crew sustenance beyond Earth.

🧪 What We’ve Proven So Far

After months of iterative R&D, we have achieved perpetual hybrid operation cycles with our current indoor and outdoor prototypes:

⚡ Optimized Solar-Powered Autonomy Using smart load balancing, solar buffering, and real-time power management, our EnergyCube (EC) system now reaches up to 9 days of full autonomy, up from 5 days — a 70–80% gain.
🌿 Closet-Size Smart Greenhouse (CSSGH) The miniature setup — affordable (sub-1,000€ raw build) and poised to scale — proves viability for indoor aquaponic production loops. It hosts fish, plants, shrimps, and smart automation to generate a nutrient flow for sustainable, daily food harvest.
🧠 Smart Control Layer 30+ devices coordinate hourly through a fully programmable matrix of solar charge-discharge buffering, USB switches, and mist/pump/wake logic — laying the groundwork for smart automation in enclosed extraterrestrial environments.

🚀 Why This Matters for Space

As humanity prepares for long-duration missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, self-replenishing food systems will be mission critical. We're not just growing lettuce in a box — we are:

Engineering Biotopes That Feed: We scale from nano-fountains to CSSGH, and soon to 20m² autarkic biotopes capable of feeding full astronaut crews.
Designing for Autarky :Our systems are built with the principle of circularity — meaning waste becomes input, and no external resupply is needed.
Enabling Daily Nutrient Extraction: As in French:"Ces systèmes autorisent les prélèvements par l’équipage de manière quotidienne pour les apports en nutriments." These life-support food systems are designed for daily harvesting by the crew, maintaining human health without Earth intervention. And allow production of delicious food, also mission-critical, in proper Ajinomatrix fashion!

🧩 What’s Next: Scaling & Integration

🧬 Phase 4: Smart Modular LSS With proof-of-concept complete, we now prepare the next generation:

Modular 20–25 m² units
Integration with real-time environmental sensing
Adaptive light/water/nutrient cycles
VR digital twin for mission monitoring

🍽️ Imagine: a fresh, delicious dinner harvested in orbit — basil from a biotube, microgreens from a vertical tray, and protein from a smart aquaponics loop. It's mission nutrition powered by Ajinomatrix's sensory intelligence.

🛰️ Final Word from a 40-Year Veteran

As of someone with four decades in the intersection of biotechnology, system design, and sustainable engineering, it can be said the following:

“From the whisper of a fountain biotope to the crunch of greens in a starry sky, we are proving that autonomy is possible — and delicious. What we're building isn't just food; it's survival, dignity, and pleasure — on Earth and far beyond.”

We’re not just preparing greenhouses — we’re preparing humanity.

Welcome to the future of taste in space.

🌿🚀Ajinomatrix BioSphere Team