Resources are extremely limited in spacecraft, and oxygen consumed for breathing also needs regeneration. In the system using the current Sabatier reaction (CO2 + 4H2 → CH4 + 2H2O), O2 can only be collected up to about 50% ...

Human exploration of deep space will require Environmental Control and Life Support Systems of increasing dependability as mission duration and distance from Earth increases. As crews travel to distant unexplored environments, ...

Water Recovery System (WRS) is a key-technology for future manned space exploration. JAXA aims at the higher water recovery rate than the current ISS system with no consumable supplies in order to reduce water replenishment. ...

NASA has embarked on the mission to enable humans to explore deep space, including the goal of sending humans to Mars. This journey will require significant developments in a wide range of technical areas as resupply and ...

A Heat Melt Compactor (HMC) has been under development by NASA in recent years as a technology for processing space mission trash. The HMC compacts the trash, heats the trash to 150 C, sterilizes the trash, and recovers ...

The Boeing Company (Boeing) CST-100 Starliner spacecraft utilizes the patented Humidity Control Subassembly (HCS) designed and manufactured by Paragon Space Development Corporation (Paragon) to control cabin atmospheric ...

Commercial space launch companies have been drastically decreasing their launch costs in recent years. This may change space logistics for future lunar and Mars missions. In the Artemis plan, the lunar gateway located in ...

Nov 20th, 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of construction of the International Space Station. Major events include NASA direction to study system dormancy as it would relate to a short term de-crewing of ...

When humans return to the moon under NASA�s Artemis program, their activities on the lunar surface will inevitably lead to the intrusion of some level of lunar dust into the lander cabin and subsequently its potential ...

Since its start in 2016, the COSPAR workshop series on "Planetary protection requirements for human extraterrestrial missions" has generated and refined a set of planetary protection (PP) knowledge gaps (KGs) which, if ...