BOULDER — Ascent Technology LLC was recently named runner-up in NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, taking home $250,000 for its SATED cooking device.
SATED stands for “Safe Appliance, Tidy, Efficient and Delicious” and enables food to be cooked in environments with different gravity.
The product also received the Challenge’s Tyler Florence Award for Culinary Innovation. Celebrity chef Florence was impressed with SATED “for its innovative approach to the challenge,” according to a NASA press release.
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“The Deep Space Food Challenge could serve as a framework for providing astronauts with healthy and delicious food using sustainable mechanisms,” said Angela Herblet, challenge manager for the Deep Space Food Challenge at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. “The challenge has brought together innovative and motivated people from around the world who are passionate about developing new solutions that support our agency’s future Moon-to-Mars missions.”
