Networks and Communities
Space food innovation is being advanced by diverse communities of experts around the globe, and we are working to connect and strengthen that broader ecosystem. Even where we are not direct collaborators, we aim to serve as a resource that helps people identify relevant communities in their areas of interest and build meaningful connections.
Heritage Space Food
Heritage Space Food brings together expertise across food systems, human behavior, institutional collaboration, cultural intelligence, and future facing design.
Our work sits across food systems, media, and institutional environments where public meaning is shaped in real time.
We are building inside a space that already exists but has not yet been organized.
Space Sensory Lab (SSL)
World Taste & Smell Association’s (WTSA) Space Sensory Lab explores the human side of food systems - advancing research on taste, smell, favor perception, appetite, and sensory well-being in space and other extreme environments. By bringing together scientists, clinicians, chefs, designers, and human factors experts, we help ensure that future food systems are designed for humans, informed by science, and ground in the realities of how food is perceived, experienced and enjoyed.
Space Nutrition Network (SNN)
The SNN raises awareness among nutrition professionals about nutrition's vital role in space.
Sweden Food Arena
Sweden Food Arena is a national arena where actors from the entire food chain collaborate on innovation and research for an innovative, sustainable and competitive food sector. The arena is a result of the Government's Food Strategy, which aims to increase production, contribute to a competitive food chain and increase employment, exports, innovation and profitability while achieving relevant environmental goals.
ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space (P4S)
The P4S is developing technologies to enable humans to survive and thrive in space, reducing the dependence on constant resupply, and using this lens to transform the sustainability of food and bioresource production on Earth.
We are a transdisciplinary endeavor involving multiple skillsets from systems and process engineering, plant biology, food chemistry, psychology, education and space law. Our international and national consortium has representation across a wide range of industries. This includes space, controlled environment agriculture, and food manufacturing.
The Space Agriculture Laboratory Analysis Database (SALAD)
SALAD is developing solutions to help the world’s leading space research institutions organize, design, and visualize experimental information, hardware, and research topics. This innovative tool aims to accelerate the development of sustainable space crop production and bring us closer to our interstellar goals.
FOODiQ Global
We are the global leader in the translation of food and nutrition science. FOODiQ Global exists to empower people and organizations with food and nutrition information that is backed by science to contribute to a healthier world for everyone. We do this by being curious and challenging the status quo to mobilise and spark creativity, innovation and thought leadership in all that we do.
We lead the market with our end-to-end range of services, including our best-in-class proprietary iQ³ strategy development process and quality research, communication, and education.
Meet the Team
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ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space (P4S)
The P4S is developing technologies to enable humans to survive and thrive in space, reducing the dependence on constant resupply, and using this lens to transform the sustainability of food and bioresource production on Earth.
We are a transdisciplinary endeavor involving multiple skillsets from systems and process engineering, plant biology, food chemistry, psychology, education and space law. Our international and national consortium has representation across a wide range of industries. This includes space, controlled environment agriculture, and food manufacturing. -

Heritage Space Food
Heritage Space Food brings together expertise across food systems, human behavior, institutional collaboration, cultural intelligence, and future facing design.
Our work sits across food systems, media, and institutional environments where public meaning is shaped in real time.
We are building inside a space that already exists but has not yet been organized.
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Space Sensory Lab (SSL)
World Taste & Smell Association’s (WTSA) Space Sensory Lab explores the human side of food systems - advancing research on taste, smell, favor perception, appetite, and sensory well-being in space and other extreme environments. By bringing together scientists, clinicians, chefs, designers, and human factors experts, we help ensure that future food systems are designed for humans, informed by science, and ground in the realities of how food is perceived, experienced and enjoyed.
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The Space Agriculture Laboratory Analysis Database (SALAD)
SALAD is developing solutions to help the world’s leading space research institutions organize, design, and visualize experimental information, hardware, and research topics. This innovative tool aims to accelerate the development of sustainable space crop production and bring us closer to our interstellar goals.
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FOODiQ Global
We are the global leader in the translation of food and nutrition science. FOODiQ Global exists to empower people and organizations with food and nutrition information that is backed by science to contribute to a healthier world for everyone. We do this by being curious and challenging the status quo to mobilise and spark creativity, innovation and thought leadership in all that we do.
We lead the market with our end-to-end range of services, including our best-in-class proprietary iQ³ strategy development process and quality research, communication, and education.
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Space Nutrition Network (SNN)
The SNN raises awareness among nutrition professionals about nutrition's vital role in space.
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Sweden Food Arena
Sweden Food Arena is a national arena where actors from the entire food chain collaborate on innovation and research for an innovative, sustainable and competitive food sector. The arena is a result of the Government's Food Strategy, which aims to increase production, contribute to a competitive food chain and increase employment, exports, innovation and profitability while achieving relevant environmental goals.
The Deep Space Food Consortium is administered by the Methuselah Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and the allied partner of NASA’s Centennial Challenges Program
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