International Space Station Waste Collector Subsystem Risk Mitigation Experiment Design Improvements

Goldblatt, Loel; Neumann, M. J.; Chhipwadia, Ketan S.; Brasseaux, Hubert J.

doi:10.4271/2002-01-2304

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“…Although the crew indicated that performance was substantially improved over the Shuttle WCS, the fourth and last flight was STS-104 (7A) due to Shuttle Program funding limitations. STS-104 (Goldblatt, L, et al, 2002) appeared to solve the all previous crew interface issues and requirements, and received excellent crew feedback. The only improvement suggested was to replace the automated mechanical compactor with a manual compactor.…”

Section: Shuttle Wcs Descriptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Waste Collector System Technology Comparisons for Constellation Applications

Broyan

2007

SAE Technical Paper Series

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The Waste Collection Systems (WCS) for space vehicles have utilized a variety of hardware for collecting human metabolic wastes. It has typically required multiple missions to resolve crew usability and hardware performance issues that are difficult to duplicate on the ground. New space vehicles should leverage off past WCS systems.Past WCS hardware designs are substantially different and unique for each vehicle. However, each WCS can be analyzed and compared as a subset of 'technologies' which encompass fecal collection, urine collection, air systems, pretreatment systems. Technology components from the WCS of various vehicles can then be combined to reduce hardware mass and volume while maximizing use of previous technology and proven human-equipment interfaces. Analysis of past US and Russian WCS are compared and extrapolated to Constellation missions.

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Section: Shuttle Wcs Descriptionmentioning

confidence: 99%