As Laura Kaziukonienė, the manager of the freeze-dried products company, told LRT radio on Saturday, the most important task now is to create recipes based on these products.
“The principle is that the food is frozen to a very low temperature, minus 80 degrees, in special equipment and the moisture is extracted with the help of a vacuum.” What comes out next is, to put it mildly, a miracle, because all the nutrients remain”, said L. Kaziukonienė.
“These snacks of ours, which interested the space agency, are patented. A whole carrot is a one centimeter cube, a whole beet is a one centimeter cube. Based on these, products for the space agency will be developed,” she added.
The company has previously announced that the snacks will have to go through rigorous screening before they can be sent into space.
The lyophilized products company is among the eight Lithuanian companies included in the list of projects recommended for financing by the ESA Third Countries Program.
As the Innovation Agency announced in the first half of July, the ESA plans to allocate almost one million euros for the implementation of the projects.
Funding is intended to be allocated to two projects of the Geomatrix company, as well as to the companies Geldbaltic, Bioanalizės sistemos, Uvireso, Adscensus, Center for Physical and Technological Sciences and Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Vilnius Tech).
According to the Innovation Agency, the participation of businesses in the ESA Third Country Program is growing every year: 26 applications were submitted in the last call, ten were received in 2022, and three in 2021.
The Innovation Agency operates the “Space Hub” group, whose mission is to develop the activities of the Lithuanian space ecosystem, to present the activities of entrepreneurs and scientific institutions to the European Space Agency.
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2024-07-21 21:48:47
