Japanese Research Activities of Life Support System National Aerospace Laboratory Tokyo, Japan

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Nitta, Keiji, author.

Conference Name:

International Conference On Environmental Systems (1990-07-09 : Williamsburg, Virginia, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1990

Summary:

Many research activities relating the environment control and life support systems to be used in space have been conducted and continued in Japan since 1982 in order to obtain his own manned flight technologies for future Japanese missions.Research and development activities are able to be divided in two phases according mission scheduling such as JEM development to be used in International Space Station now going on and the future Japanese space infrastructures, for examples, Japanese Space Station and Lunar Base.Temperature, humidity, total atmospheric pressure and partial pressure of oxygen and carbon dioxide, necessary for all living things, are to be controlled by the environment control function. This function can be performed by technologies already developed and used as the Environment Control Life Support System(ECLSS)of Space Shuttle, and the new oxygen recovering technology from carbon dioxide in now going to be developed for more long duration stay in International Space Station

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Publisher Number:

901205

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