August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
...creating an elliptical path that extends to the equatorial regions, research in these regions is enabled, while water for life-support can be extracted from the Malapert Mountain on a regular basis. While the Sundial Explorer follows a dedicated path...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
... cosmonauts on the surface of a planet. Short- and long-term isolation experiments were performed to test promising life support systems, to assess the performance of cosmonauts during complex dynamic operations and delve into small group psychology...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
...-Moon cycler orbits, creating a market for rocket propellants in low Earth orbit and generating experience with life-support and radiation protection above the Van Allen belts, as well as with artificial gravity in due course, as the...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... Musk has stated a goal for self-sufficiency of one million people) A large-scale closed-cycle ecological life-support system would need to be in place There would need to be a good understanding of human health factors within a relatively confined...
February 2016
A Self-Deployable Habitat for Extreme Environments (SHEE)
..., and has not yet been completely achieved by the industry as a whole, but the Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) of SHEE is successful in recycling water and regenerating consumed air. ECLSS components are provided in the...
July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
...the engine cool enough to survive the hellish combustion temperatures and pressures The design of environmental and life support systems for crewed spacecraft represents a completely different challenge for engineers, but is no less important for the...
