What is your main challenge?

Interstellar Lab develops environmentally controlled, closed-loop modules designed for selfsustainable life on Earth today, and in space in the near future. Combining architecture, agronomy, engineering, product design and science, the company needed an industry-leading platform to support its geographically dispersed and multidisciplinary research teams and empower them to innovate at speed.

What solutions are you using?

Interstellar Lab partnered with Dassault Systèmes to design its modules on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud through the Reinvent the Sky solution. The platform allows the team of scientists, engineers and architects to access a set of integrated applications and connect in real time, ensuring data integrity at every stage.

“We want to end up with a village that is very easy to deploy and requires a minimal workforce,” Belvisi said. “That’s how we came up with the inflatable, foldable domes design, stacking everything we need to support life within the structure.

” Each module is designed with CATIA on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. “We opted for a parametric design approach that enables us to generate shells and structures with complex, scalable geometry from a large amount of data,” Rhoné said. “Then we can iterate and simulate as we refine our design. A BioPod houses many different structural components. Being able to centralize all in one platform helps us work more efficiently.”

“We look to space to come up with new, more efficient concepts and systems that we are testing on Earth,” Belvisi said. “If you think about going to another planet, the system must be light and super-resilient. We also must consider a lot of constraints in terms of solar radiation, extreme temperature and so on.”

Benefits

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud enables Interstellar Lab to ensure seamless, centralized global collaboration. The team can work on the station’s virtual twin concurrently, rapidly optimize and validate iterations using the solution’s powerful simulation capabilities. All disciplines are gathered on a single platform to address some of the planet’s greatest challenges and make life possible, even in the most extreme environments.

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