Challenges with Deploying and Integrating Environmental Control and Life Support Functions in a Lunar Architecture with High Degrees of Mobility

2009-01-2481

07/12/2009

Event
International Conference On Environmental Systems
Authors Abstract
Content
Visions of lunar outposts often depict a collection of fixed elements such as pressurized habitats, in and around which human inhabitants spend the large majority of their surface stay time. In such an outpost, an efficient deployment of environmental control and life support equipment can be achieved by centralizing certain functions within one or a minimum number of habitable elements and relying on the exchange of gases and liquids between elements via atmosphere ventilation and plumbed interfaces. However, a rigidly fixed outpost can constrain the degree to which the total lunar landscape can be explored. The capability to enable widespread access across the landscape makes a lunar architecture with a high degree of surface mobility attractive. Such mobility presents unique challenges to the efficient deployment of environmental control and life support functions in multiple elements that may for long periods of time be operated independently. This paper describes some of those anticipated challenges.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2009-01-2481
Pages
7
Citation
Bagdigian, R., "Challenges with Deploying and Integrating Environmental Control and Life Support Functions in a Lunar Architecture with High Degrees of Mobility," SAE Technical Paper 2009-01-2481, 2009, https://doi.org/10.4271/2009-01-2481.
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Published
Jul 12, 2009
Product Code
2009-01-2481
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English