Centrifuge Accommodation Module (CAM) Cabin Air Temperature and Humidity Control Analysis

Tsai, Ching-Fen; Castro, Henry; Iwohara, Steve; Kamiya, Takeshi; Ito, Sadamu; Kohama, Terumasa; Kanazawa, Ryoichi

doi:10.4271/2005-01-2801

SAE Technical Paper Series 2005

DOI: 10.4271/2005-01-2801

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Centrifuge Accommodation Module (CAM) Cabin Air Temperature and Humidity Control Analysis

Ching-Fen Tsai¹,

Henry Castro²,

Steve Iwohara³

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“…Practical efforts since then have been more modest. Japan's Centrifuge Accommodation Module (CAM) was to fly on the ISS27 and would have enabled relatively large scale experiments from 0.01 to 2 g under ambient atmospheric conditions, where g=980 cm s -1 is the gravity of Earth. In 2011 NASA proposed a large inflatable centrifuge28 that would be attached to the ISS as a sleeping module, to demonstrate crewed journeys to Mars and beyond.…”

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We advocate a low-cost strategy for long-duration research into the ‘milligravity’ environment of asteroids, comets and small moons, where surface gravity is a vector field typically less than 1/1000 the gravity of Earth. Unlike the microgravity environment of space, there is a directionality that gives rise, over time, to strangely familiar geologic textures and landforms. In addition to advancing planetary science, and furthering technologies for hazardous asteroid mitigation and in situ resource utilization, simplified access to long-duration milligravity offers significant potential for advancing human spaceflight, biomedicine and manufacturing. We show that a commodity 3U (10 × 10 × 34 cm3) cubesat containing a laboratory of loose materials can be spun to 1 r.p.m. = 2π/60 s−1 on its long axis, creating a centrifugal force equivalent to the surface gravity of a kilometer-sized asteroid. We describe the first flight demonstration, where small meteorite fragments will pile up to create a patch of real regolith under realistic asteroid conditions, paving the way for subsequent missions where landing and mobility technology can be flight-proven in the operational environment, in low-Earth orbit. The 3U design can be adapted for use onboard the International Space Station to allow for variable gravity experiments under ambient temperature and pressure for a broader range of experiments.

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