Location

Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Enterprise Rooms

Start Date

26-4-1995 2:00 PM

End Date

26-4-1995 5:00 PM

Description

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Biomedical Operations and Research Office (MD), Life Sciences Group (MD-RES), at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, is conducting research in the design and development of Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems (CELSS) for use in long-term human-tended space colonization efforts. The project seeks to perfect the engineering systems required for maintaining food and oxygen recycling, replenishment, and generation for astronauts engaged in missions wherein regular Earth-based resupply would be difficult and economically infeasible, as in a lunar base or a Mars exploration mission. Major components of CELSS are crop production, resource recovery (waste management), and monitor and control. These components must be integrated to produce a reliable system with minimal mass and volume which requires that we minimize buffers (e.g. support equipment size and capacity) and optimize control. One element of the computerized control and monitoring component of the CELSS project at KSC is the Universal Networked Data Acquistition and Control Engine (UNDACE), the software designed to automatically monitor and control the operations and environments of the crop production and resource recovery components.

Comments

People Working in Space, the Needs and the Effects

Session Chairman: Wyck Hoffler, Deputy Director of Biomedical Operations and Research Office, Kennedy Space Center

Session Organizer: Rachel Webb

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Apr 26th, 2:00 PM Apr 26th, 5:00 PM

Paper Session II-B - Automated Software Systems for the CELSS Project

Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Enterprise Rooms

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Biomedical Operations and Research Office (MD), Life Sciences Group (MD-RES), at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, is conducting research in the design and development of Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems (CELSS) for use in long-term human-tended space colonization efforts. The project seeks to perfect the engineering systems required for maintaining food and oxygen recycling, replenishment, and generation for astronauts engaged in missions wherein regular Earth-based resupply would be difficult and economically infeasible, as in a lunar base or a Mars exploration mission. Major components of CELSS are crop production, resource recovery (waste management), and monitor and control. These components must be integrated to produce a reliable system with minimal mass and volume which requires that we minimize buffers (e.g. support equipment size and capacity) and optimize control. One element of the computerized control and monitoring component of the CELSS project at KSC is the Universal Networked Data Acquistition and Control Engine (UNDACE), the software designed to automatically monitor and control the operations and environments of the crop production and resource recovery components.

 

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