Advanced Spacesuit Portable Life Support System Packaging Concept Mock-Up Design & Development 1999-01-1995
A concentrated development effort was begun at NASA Johnson Space Center to create an advanced Portable Life Support System (PLSS) packaging concept. Ease of maintenance, technological flexibility, low weight, and minimal volume are targeted in the design of future micro-gravity and planetary PLSS configurations. Three main design concepts emerged from conceptual design techniques and were carried forth into detailed design, then full scale mock-up creation. “Foam”, “Motherboard”, and “LEGO™” packaging design concepts are described in detail. Results of the evaluation process targeted maintenance, robustness, mass properties, and flexibility as key aspects to a new PLSS packaging configuration. The various design tools used to evolve concepts into high fidelity mock ups revealed that no single tool was all encompassing, several combinations were complimentary, the devil is in the details, and, despite efforts, many lessons were learned only after working with hardware.
Citation: O'Connell, M., Slade, H., and Stinson, R., "Advanced Spacesuit Portable Life Support System Packaging Concept Mock-Up Design & Development," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-1995, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-1995. Download Citation
Author(s):
Mary K. O'Connell, Howard G. Slade, Richard G. Stinson
Affiliated:
Lockheed Martin Space Operations
Pages: 13
Event:
International Conference On Environmental Systems
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Life support systems
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