Coffee Lovers May Someday Brew Their Java with Space-Roasted Beans

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There's gourmet coffee, and then there's coffee roasted by the searing heat of re-entry into Earth's atmosphere from the edge of space. ☕️

The founders told Room that traditional coffee is roasted in a spinning, heated drum, where beans contact the sides of the container and heat unevenly. To get a uniform roast, the beans have to be cooked for longer.

Space.com asked company representatives by email when exactly the capsule experiences microgravity, since objects experience a slowing drag during re-entry, and got the following response:"We will achieve roasting in microgravity in two stages. First, a suborbital flight to prove the concept and gather data from the roast.

 

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Published in Feb 2019

So much for making their goal of having it completed by 2020... smh..

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Don't Spill the Beans: Zero-G Cup Lets Astronauts 'Smell the Coffee'Sarah Lewin started writing for Space.com in June of 2015 as a Staff Writer and became Associate Editor in 2019 . Her work has been featured by Scientific American, IEEE Spectrum, Quanta Magazine, Wired, The Scientist, Science Friday and WGBH's Inside NOVA. Sarah has an MA from NYU's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program and an AB in mathematics from Brown University. When not writing, reading or thinking about space, Sarah enjoys musical theatre and mathematical papercraft. She is currently Assistant News Editor at Scientific American. You can follow her on Twitter SarahExplains. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ What if you had - THE EXTRAORDINARY PRIVILEGE - to drink your morning cup in zero gravity? There, I fixed it for you. so many idiots unaware of it, every time i mentioned it and explained as much as my silly little physics dropout brain could, i was the one being called a dumbass. literally basic qualities of water
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