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Advanced Spacesuit Portable Life Support System Packaging Concept Mock-Up Design & Development
Technical Paper
1999-01-1995
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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A concentrated development effort was begun at NASA Johnson Space Center to create an advanced Portable Life Support System (PLSS) packaging concept. Ease of maintenance, technological flexibility, low weight, and minimal volume are targeted in the design of future micro-gravity and planetary PLSS configurations. Three main design concepts emerged from conceptual design techniques and were carried forth into detailed design, then full scale mock-up creation. “Foam”, “Motherboard”, and “LEGO™” packaging design concepts are described in detail. Results of the evaluation process targeted maintenance, robustness, mass properties, and flexibility as key aspects to a new PLSS packaging configuration. The various design tools used to evolve concepts into high fidelity mock ups revealed that no single tool was all encompassing, several combinations were complimentary, the devil is in the details, and, despite efforts, many lessons were learned only after working with hardware.
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O'Connell, M., Slade, H., and Stinson, R., "Advanced Spacesuit Portable Life Support System Packaging Concept Mock-Up Design & Development," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-1995, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-1995.Also In
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- ICES 1999-01-1994, PLSS Packaging Design, Rouen, 1999
- ICES SAE-941554, In Flight Maintainability for an Advanced Extravihicular Mobility Unit: Key to System Availability Landis, P. 1994