AAE 450 – Spacecraft Design 1 Life Support System Timothy Szamborski 18 January 2005 Human Factors – Team Leader Evaluation of Methods to Create Artificial Gravity Life Support System – Closed system
AAE 450 – Spacecraft Design Closed Life Support System
AAE 450 – Spacecraft Design Important Parameters for System Need ~40 m^2 / CM, or ~160 m^2 total (~164.8m^3). Total Mass = kg/m^2, or 16,240 kg Power = 2.6 kW/m^2, or 416kW deg C (Dark Cycle) deg C (Light Cycle)
AAE 450 – Spacecraft Design Potential Foods to Harvest Wheat Rice White Potato Sweet Potato Peanut Soybean Dry bean Tomato Radish Carrot Cabbage Spinach Onion Lettuce
AAE 450 – Spacecraft Design Human Inputs Oxygen Dry Food Food/Drinking water Hand/Face/Shower/ clothes/dish water Urine/Comode Flush water Total 0.83(kg/person/day) kg/person/day
AAE 450 – Spacecraft Design Human Outputs CO_2 Gray Water (dishes/clothes/hygiene/ shower) Feces/Urine/sweat Total 1.00(kg/person/day) kg/person/day
AAE 450 – Spacecraft Design References “Advanced Life Support – Baseline Values and Assumptions Document”. Crew and Thermal Systems Division, Johnson Space Center, JSC May 2002 “Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space”. National Research Council “Space Flight”. Adams, Carsbie C. 1958
AAE 450 – Spacecraft Design References Plants and Water enterprise.purdue.edu/wps/portal/.cmd/cs/.ce/155/. s/2022/_s.155/2022 Masses of Different Plants