NASA is engaged in early architectural analyses and trade studies aimed at identifying requirements, predicting performance and resource needs, characterizing mission constraints and sensitivities, and guiding technology development planning needed to conduct a successful human exploration campaign of the lunar surface. Conceptual designs and resource estimates for environmental control and life support systems (ECLSS) within pressurized lunar surface habitats and rovers have been considered and compared in order to support these lunar campaign studies. This paper will summarize those concepts and some of the more noteworthy considerations that will likely remain as key drivers in the evolution of the lunar surface ECLSS architecture.
Considerations Regarding the Development of an Environmental Control and Life Support System for Lunar Surface Applications
2008
16 pages
Report
No indication
English
Extraterrestrial Exploration , Life Support Systems , Closed ecological systems , Environmental control , Life support systems , Lunar surface , Performance prediction , Technological forecasting , Mission planning , Roving vehicles , Estimates , Identifying , Environmental control and life support systems (ECLSS) , Lunar bases , Human exploration campaigns
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