Advanced Environmental Monitoring and Control Program : Technology Development Requirements
- Author:
- Seshan, Panchalam
- Published:
- May 1996.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic document
- Additional Creators:
- Doarn, Charles, Schmidt, Gregory, Jan, Darrell, and Ganapathi, Gani
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- Human missions in space, from the International Space Station on towards potential human exploration of the moon, Mars and beyond into the solar system, will require advanced systems to maintain an environment that supports human life. These systems will have to recycle air and water for many months or years at a time, and avoid harmful chemical or microbial contamination. NASA's Advanced Environmental Monitoring and Control program has the mission of providing future spacecraft with advanced, integrated networks of microminiaturized sensors to accurately determine and control the physical, chemical and biological environment of the crew living areas. This document sets out the current state of knowledge for requirements for monitoring the crew environment, based on (1) crew health, and (2) life support monitoring systems. Both areas are updated continuously through research and space mission experience. The technologies developed must meet the needs of future life support systems and of crew health monitoring. These technologies must be inexpensive and lightweight, and use few resources. Using these requirements to continue to push the state of the art in miniaturized sensor and control systems will produce revolutionary technologies to enable detailed knowledge of the crew environment.
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- Collection:
- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
- Note:
- Document ID: 19960052836.
Accession ID: 96N35860.
JPLD-13832.
NASA-TM-4755.
NAS 1.15:4755.
Environmental Monitoring and Controls; May 1996; Pasadena, CA; United States. - Terms of Use and Reproduction:
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