July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
...and simplify crew tasking for on orbit deployment of ECLSS functional groups. Design teams will need to develop ... The levels of complexity of the current state-of-the-art ECLSS assemblies are a result of mitigation of long duration operational ...
February 2016
A Self-Deployable Habitat for Extreme Environments (SHEE)
... common area, a hygiene compartment and a small workshop. The habitat’s Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) can sustain a twoperson crew for two weeks The Environmental Control and Life Support System...
January 2023
Producing food in space
... times more efficient when compared to plants and any spacecraft environmental control and life support system (ECLSS) includes an electrolyser for oxygen production. The hydrogen produced by the electrolyser presently has little use on a spacecraft...
February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
...matter. The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) installed in the International Space Station (ISS) ... recycling of waste materials (for example, faecal matter) to the ECLSS. A BLSS with bacteria and algae could be used to recycle ...
October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
... integrity as well as the ability to house essential functionality such as the Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) modules and environmental sealing of the habitat. The back-shell from the Entry, Descent and Landing...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
... in view of human error. Case studies were conducted on Columbus Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) operations from COL-CC, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle operations, and Control Centre of European Tracking Stations (ECC) operations...
