Status of ISS Water Management and Recovery

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2015-07-12

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45th International Conference on Environmental Systems

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Water management on ISS is responsible for the provision of water to the crew for drinking water, food preparation, and hygiene, to the Oxygen Generation System (OGS) for oxygen production via electrolysis, to the Waste & Hygiene Compartment (WHC) for flush water, and for experiments on ISS. This paper summarizes water management activities on the ISS US Segment, and provides a status of the performance and issues related to the operation of the Water Processor Assembly (WPA) and Urine Processor Assembly (UPA). This paper summarizes the on-orbit status as of May 2015 and describes the technical challenges encountered and lessons learned over the past two years.

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Bellevue, Washington
Layne Carter, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, USA
Jennifer Pruitt, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, USA
Christopher A. Brown, Lockheed Martin Corporation, USA
Ryan Schaezler, The Boeing Company, USA
Lyndsey Bankers, The Boeing Company, USA
The 45th International Conference on Environmental Systems was held in Bellevue, Washington, USA on 12 July 2015 through 16 July 2015.

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