The New Italian Bioregenerative Life Support Program CAB Thales Alenia Space Italia; (*)current affiliation ESA-ESTEC

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Lobascio, C., author.

Conference Name:

International Conference On Environmental Systems (2007-07-09 : Chicago, Illinois, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2007

Summary:

The Bioregenerative Life Support program CAB (Controllo Ambientale Biorigenerativo) is a key element of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) Medicine and Biotechnology scientific program, set forth in the ASI Activity Plan 2006-2008.The CAB program started in October 2006, under the prime partnership of Thales Alenia Space Italia, with a feasibility study of a controlled biological system, allowing the regeneration of resources and the production of food for life support in long duration missions.Main constituents of the CAB program are (a) higher plants as basic elements for food and oxygen production, CO2 regeneration and water purification via the photosynthetic and leaf transpiration processes, and (b) biological and physico-chemical systems for environmental control, monitoring, power and data distribution, et cetera The sectors of technological and scientific concern are practically all the ones typical for life support systems in the frame of long duration human missions, id est:

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Publisher Number:

2007-01-3090

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