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International Space Station USOS Waste and Hygiene Compartment Development
Technical Paper
2007-01-3101
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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The International Space Station (ISS) currently provides human waste collection and hygiene facilities in the Russian Segment Service Module (SM) which supports a three person crew. Additional hardware is planned for the United States Operational Segment (USOS) to support expansion of the crew to six person capability. The additional hardware will be integrated in an ISS standard equipment rack structure that was planned to be installed in the Node 3 element, however recently the ISS Program Office recently directed implementation of the rack, or Waste and Hygiene Compartment (WHC), into the U.S. Laboratory element to provide early operational capability. In this configuration, preserved urine from the WHC waste collection system can be processed by the Urine Processor Assembly (UPA) in either the U.S. Lab or Node 3 to recover water for crew consumption or oxygen production. The human waste collection hardware is derived from the Service Module system and is provided by RSC-Energia. This paper describes the concepts, design, and integration of the WHC waste collection hardware into the USOS including integration with U.S. Lab and Node 3 systems.
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Link, D., Broyan, J., Philistine, C., and Balistreri, S., "International Space Station USOS Waste and Hygiene Compartment Development," SAE Technical Paper 2007-01-3101, 2007, https://doi.org/10.4271/2007-01-3101.Also In
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