NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) has been developing and building a new detailed design of the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) space suit to support future International Space Station (ISS) and Lunar Artemis missions. The Exploration Portable Life Support System (xPLSS) of the xEMU contains some clever new technologies to meet the requirements to provide Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) capability on the ISS and the Moon. The suit must interface with and fit through ports and airlocks of at least three vehicles: ISS, Human Landing System (HLS), and Gateway. The first partial xPLSS experimental flight unit called SWME EXPRESS Rack Flight Experiment (SERFE) that was a rack-deployed thermal control system payload on the ISS for two years (2020-2022). The first complete assembly of the xEMU was built as a Design Verification Test (DVT) unit (2022); similar to but more extensive than an Engineering Development Unit (EDU). The xPLSS Backplate serves not only as the structural backbone of the xPLSS and SERFE systems but also contains innovative design features to reduce the: mass, complexity, parts count, number ofseals (and therefore leak potential), and outer dimensions of the entire assembly. This paper provides an overview of these new design features, manufacturing processes, system interfaces, and SERFE/DVT test results of the Backplate as part of the xPLSS/xEMU.


    Zugriff

    Zugriff über TIB

    Verfügbarkeit in meiner Bibliothek prüfen


    Exportieren, teilen und zitieren



    Titel :

    xPLSS Structural Backplate Design, Manufacture, and Test Overview


    Beteiligte:
    Sean Miller (Autor:in) / Sarah Hargrove (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    52nd International Conference on Environmental Systems ; 2023 ; Calgary, CA


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




    xPLSS Structural Backplate Design, Manufacture, and Test Overview

    Alicia Baker / Sean Miller / Sarah Hargrove | NTRS | 2023


    BACKPLATE, RETRAINING STRAP, AMS5510

    SAE Technical Papers | 2022


    BACKPLATE, RETAINING STRAP AMS5510

    SAE Technical Papers | 2012


    CONTINUOUS WEAVE QUICK ADJUST HARNESS BACKPLATE SYSTEM

    JABLONSKI JARROD | Europäisches Patentamt | 2019

    Freier Zugriff

    Continuous weave quick adjust harness backplate system

    JABLONKSKI JARROD | Europäisches Patentamt | 2019

    Freier Zugriff