Title:
Development of next generation assessment algorithms for Bio-Monitor datasets - interrogating fitness, sleep and cardiovascular health aboard the International Space Station
Agreement Number:
25HLSDM3
Agreement Value:
$75,000.00
Agreement Date:
Jul 9, 2025 - Jul 15, 2026
Description:
This project will analyze pre-existing data collected by the Bio-Monitor biometric shirt in nine astronauts (two women) before, during and after missions to the International Space Station. Specific goals of this project include the un-intrusive assessment of astronaut sleep, fitness and blood pressure continually over long-duration (48-hour) recordings. Sleep is paramount to astronaut health, with numerous pre-existing reports of impaired sleep during flight. By assessing how sleep changes over the course of a mission with previously validated analyses, strategies to improve sleep quality could be developed. Astronaut fitness can be measured from Bio-Monitor signals. Finally, these analyses will allow for improved understandings of changes to astronaut health over the course of 6-month missions; they will also support the use of the Canadian-produced Bio-Monitor shirt for future missions to the moon.
Organization:
Canadian Space Agency
Expected Results:
The Research component of the program provides financial support to organizations to conduct space related research and development in priority areas. It will support targeted knowledge development and innovation to sustain and enhance the Canadian capacity to use space to address national needs and priorities in the future.
Location:
Waterloo, Ontario, CA N2J 0E2
Reference Number:
003-2025-2026-Q2-00080
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient's Legal Name:
Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging
Program:
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
Program Purpose:
This program supports knowledge development and innovation in the CSA's priority areas while increasing the awareness and participation of Canadians in space-related disciplines and activities.
The Research Component aims to support the development of science and technology; foster the continual development of a critical mass of researchers and highly qualified people in Canada; and support information gathering and space-related studies and research pertaining to Canadian Space Agency priorities.