Interstellar Lab

Interstellar Lab designs and manufactures AI-powered biospheric systems called BioPods for autonomous plant cultivation on Earth and in space. The company combines hardware engineering, artificial intelligence, and plant science to create sealed, climate-controlled greenhouse environments that achieve significant yield improvements over traditional field cultivation across more than 50 species. On Earth, BioPods serve the botanicals and cosmetics industries through partnerships with L'Oreal, Robertet, and dsm-firmenich, providing controlled-environment production of plant-based ingredients. For space applications, the company develops food production and plant research payloads, having won NASA's Deep Space Food Challenge with its NuCLEUS closed-loop food system. Interstellar Lab has partnered with Vast to integrate its Eden 1.0 plant research payload aboard the Haven-1 commercial space station and with Astrolab for its Mission Little Prince lunar program. Founded in 2018, the company operates from facilities near Paris and at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.