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Item Environmental Control and Life Support for Deep Space Travel(46th International Conference on Environmental Systems, 2016-07-10) Stapleton, Thomas; Heldmann, Micheal; Schneider, Scott; O'Neill, Jonathan; Samplatsky, Darren; White, Kimberly; Corallo, RogerNASA is working with UTAS Space, Land, and Sea to develop concepts that group Environmental Control and Life Support (ECLS) systems into logical palletized modules allowing for the maximum use of common components and the development of unique methods and design concepts that support in-flight maintenance and repair to support future exploration platforms. This new approach, developing Palletized ECLS Module designs, is intended to allow previously qualified hardware to be readily integrated into evolving exploration life support platforms. The intent of this paper is to summarize the approach to developing these modules and summarize advancements made over the first seven months of development. Areas of advancement expected to be reviewed in this paper include grouping of ECLS functions onto unique modules, developing a list of common components (valves, sensors, fans, etc.), proposing Palletized Module geometry, in-situ integration, and in-flight maintenance features and techniques.Item Environmental Control and Life Support for Deep Space Travel(48th International Conference on Environmental Systems, 2018-07-08) Stapleton, Thomas; Heldmann, Michael; Torres, Miguel; Bowers, Jason; Corallo, RogerNASA has outlined plans to transition from the Low Earth Orbit toward Earth independent exploration, evolving habitat capacity to support a trip to Mars, and return home three years later. The Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) are being developed to enable this vision. UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS) completed the first phase of this advancement, or NextSTEP, in September 2016, and is currently working on the second phase designing a universal ELCSS Module to support the different habitats currently being developed. With focus on the final exploration configuration the team is developing elements that can be used to support future ECLS hardware. The areas of development included transition from the cislunar design to an exploratory ECLS, the development of an Universal ECLSS Pallet design that enhances in-flight maintenance, an Integrated ECLSS Hierachial Control Architecture and the development of an Intelligent System intended to aide in isolating the cause of any fault. The overarching design activities included in this effort define a time dependent strategy enabling deep space exploration.Item Environmental Control and Life Support Module Architecture for Deployment across Deep Space Platforms(49th International Conference on Environmental Systems, 2019-07-07) O'Neill, Jonathan; Bowers, Jason; Corallo, Roger; Torres, Miguel; Stapleton, ThomasNASA has outlined plans for earth-independent exploration starting with crewed habitats in a cislunar orbit and progressing toward crewed landings on the moon and Mars. As several aerospace corporations are developing habitats, NASA proposed developing a universal Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) capable of supporting each habitat with nearly identical systems. UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS) completed the first phase of this development, or NextSTEP, in September 2016, and is scheduled to complete Phase 2 in early 2019. This paper presents recent work by UTAS to develop a more resilient, readily repairable and flexible system capable of installation on a wide variety of habitat platforms. This new ECLSS technology is then used to plot an evolutionary path that takes the open-loop cislunar ECLSS into a closed-loop deep space configuration. The redesign effort of Phase 2 resulted in a modular, universal ECLSS Pallet System that enhances in-flight maintenance. Finally, this paper presents a brief description of the integrated control system developed for this new ECLSS technology. This control system represents a leap forward in the evolution of ECLSS control systems. This paper shows its architecture and how modern cybernetic structures, such as network protocols and applied artificial intelligence, allow for rapid fault detection, isolation and recommissioning.Item Environmental Control and Life Support System Developed for Deep Space Travel(47th International Conference on Environmental Systems, 2017-07-16) Stapleton, Thomas; Heldmann, Michael; Torres, Miguel; O'Neill, Jonathan; Scott-Parry, Tracy; Corallo, Roger; White, Kimberly; Schneider, ScottNASA outlined plans to journey from the current Low Earth Orbit toward earth independent exploration, evolving habitat capacity to support a trip to Mars, a planetary visit, and return home 3 years later. The Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) are being developed to enable this vision. UTAS completed the first phase of this advancement, or NextSTEP, in September 2016, and is currently working on the second phase design for a universal ECLSS Module to support the different habitats. The team defined an evolutionary path that advances a 90-day Cislunar ECLSS toward a deep space, 1,100-day configuration. Integral to this configuration are: a Universal ECLSS Pallet design that enhances in-flight maintenance and, Integrated ECLSS Control System that enables the use of Machine Learning algorithms, intelligent sensors, and a state-of-the-art cross-pallet communication. The overarching design activities included in this effort define a time dependent strategy enabling deep space exploration.