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Operation of an Electronic Nose Aboard the Space Shuttle and Directions for Research for a Second Generation Device
Technical Paper
2000-01-2512
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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A flight experiment to test the operation of an Electronic Nose developed and built at JPL and Caltech was done aboard STS-95 in October-November, 1998. This ENose uses conductometric sensors made of insulating polymer-carbon composite films; it has a volume of 1.7 liters, weighs 1.4 kg including the operating computer and operates on 1.5 W average power. In the flight experiment, the ENose was operated continuously for 6 days and recorded the sensors' response to changes in air in the mid-deck of the orbiter. The ENose had been trained to identify and quantify ten common contaminants at the 24-hour Spacecraft Maximum Allowable Concentration (SMAC) level. Most SMACs are on the order of 10-100 ppm. The experiment was controlled by collecting air samples daily and analyzing them using standard analytical techniques after the flight. The device is microgravity insensitive.
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- M. A. Ryan - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- M. L. Homer - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- H. Zhou - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- K. S. Manatt - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- V. S. Ryan - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- S. P. Jackson - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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Ryan, M., Homer, M., Zhou, H., Manatt, K. et al., "Operation of an Electronic Nose Aboard the Space Shuttle and Directions for Research for a Second Generation Device," SAE Technical Paper 2000-01-2512, 2000, https://doi.org/10.4271/2000-01-2512.Also In
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