Advanced Spacesuit Portable Life Support System Packaging Concept Mock-Up Design &amp; amp; Development

O’Connell, Mary K.; Slade, Howard; Stinson, Richard G.

doi:10.4271/1999-01-1995

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“…• An in-house design study (3,4) was accomplished by NASA in the 1998 time frame to seek ways to reduce the weight of PLSS packaging, and at the same time, develop a packaging scheme that would make PLSS technology changes less costly than the current packaging methods. Experience over time shows that the exact technology change needed cannot easily be predicted.…”

Section: Micro Gravitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Advanced Space Suit Portable Life Support Subsystem Packaging Design

Howe¹,

Diep²,

Barnett³

et al. 2006

SAE Technical Paper Series

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This paper discusses the Portable Life Support Subsystem (PLSS) packaging design work done by the NASA and Hamilton Sundstrand in support of the 3 future space missions; Lunar, Mars and zero-g. The goal is to seek ways to reduce the weight of PLSS packaging, and at the same time, develop a packaging scheme that would make PLSS technology changes less costly than the current packaging methods. This study builds on the results of NASA's in-house 1998 study, which resulted in the "Flex PLSS" concept. For this study the present EMU schematic (low earth orbit) was used so that the work team could concentrate on the packaging. The Flex PLSS packaging is required to: protect, connect, and hold the PLSS and its components together internally and externally while providing access to PLSS components internally for maintenance and for technology change without extensive redesign impact. The goal of this study was two fold:1. Bring the advanced space suit integrated Flex PLSS concept from its current state of development to a preliminary design level and build a proof of concept mockup of the proposed design, and; 2. "Design" a Design Process, which accommodates both the initial Flex PLSS design and the package modifications, required to accommodate new technology.

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Section: Micro Gravitymentioning

confidence: 99%