The paper describes the design and the operation principles of the Plant Module for Autonomous Space Support (P-MASS), designed to provide life support for a variety of plants, algae, and bacteria in low earth orbit during the maiden flight of COMET-1, scheduled for 1993. During flight (scheduled to continue for 30 days), both color video images and collected environmental data (including light intensity, temperature, relative humidity, CO2 and O2 concentrations, soil moisture, and nutrients released) will be downlinked to earth several times a day. These data will also be stored within the payload and retrieved from it after reentry and recovery.


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    Title :

    Design and evaluation of a payload to support plant growth onboard COMET 1


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SAE, International Conference on Environmental Systems ; 1992 ; Seattle, WA, United States


    Publication date :

    1992-07-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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