An in-situ propellant production system (ISPP) is designed to make rocket fuel from chemicals in the Martian atmosphere in order to reduce the amount of materials that would need to be brought from Earth to support Mars missions. We have developed a description of a hypothetical ISPP system that we would like to make available to researchers who are interested in the problem of automatically diagnosing failures in complex NASA systems. This problem description will help researchers to investigate problems of interest to NASA. We would like to make the following material publicly available: (1) a 'common sense' model of an ISPP system; (2) low- and medium-fidelity simulations of the ISPP system written in Microsoft Excel and HCC; and (3) previously published data and diagrams concerning ISPP components. We do not believe there are any export considerations on these materials for the following reasons: (1) These models are not useful for guidance and real time control of vehicles, encrpytion, or any other software purpose categorized under the Export Control Classification Numbers; and (2) The models are very high level and would not by themselves enable real-time control of a real hardware system. The models are at the level of common sense. They capture, for example, that if a heater is turned on an increase in temperature should result(see the attached excerpt). We do not believe there is any commercial value to this material, given the low commercial demand for propellant plants on mars. We have spoken to acting Code IC Division Chief Dan Clancy, and he concurs with our desire to make these materials publicly available via a technical report.


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    Titel :

    Models of an In-Situ Propellant Production Plant for Mars Exploration


    Beteiligte:
    Goodrich, Charlie (Autor:in) / Kurien, James (Autor:in) / Millar, Bill (Autor:in) / Sweet, Adam (Autor:in) / Waterman, Sue (Autor:in) / Clancy, Daniel (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2001-01-01


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


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    In Situ Propellant Production on Mars

    Messina, Gabriele / Vasile, Massimiliano / Davighi, Andrea et al. | AIAA | 2005


    Integrated Mars In Situ Propellant Production System

    Zubrin, Robert M. | Online Contents | 2013


    Investigation of Mars In-Situ Propellant Production

    MacKnight, Allen / Reddig, Mike | SAE Technical Papers | 1997