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 ...

Nov 2, 2017 marks the completion of the 17th year of continuous human presence in space on board the International Space Station (ISS). After 54 expedition crews, over 115 assembly & utilization flights, over 180 combined ...

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. ...

Monitoring the Total Organic Carbon (TOC) in spacecraft potable water will be of major importance in long-duration human space exploration. In-flight analysis of potable water produced from a regenerative water processor ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been developing closed Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS). Air revitalization system in closed ECLSS consists of five subsystems, CO2 removal assembly, ...

Throughout the life of the International Space Station (ISS), NASA has developed, delivered and operated a suite of progres-sively more capable environmental control and life support system (ECLSS) components and assemblies. ...

As manned space flight reaches past the safety of Earth’s radiation protection for longer durations, the high levels of harmful radiation must be mitigated. Current strategies for mitigating this radiation to acceptable ...

Paragon Space Development Corporation® (Paragon) and our partner Research Institution Texas Tech University (TTU) are developing a game changing spacecraft habitat wastewater recycling system that integrates 1) the TTU ...

Deep space human exploration mission concepts presented at the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Committee meetings NASA exploration concept include a multi-vehicle architecture, including ...

NASA 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 ...