SVET plant growth system

SVET (Russian: свет, "light") was a plant cultivation unit on the Kristall module of the Mir space station.

It was installed in 1990 and operated until 2001.

[1] Brassica rapa was successfully grown there in 1997.

[2][3] The project was a joint Russian-Bulgarian one, developed at the Space Research and Technology Institute in Sofia.

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