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Design and evaluation of a payload to support plant growth onboard COMET 1The paper describes the design and the operation principles of the Plant Module for Autonomous Space Support (P-MASS), designed to provide life support for a variety of plants, algae, and bacteria in low earth orbit during the maiden flight of COMET-1, scheduled for 1993. During flight (scheduled to continue for 30 days), both color video images and collected environmental data (including light intensity, temperature, relative humidity, CO2 and O2 concentrations, soil moisture, and nutrients released) will be downlinked to earth several times a day. These data will also be stored within the payload and retrieved from it after reentry and recovery.
Document ID
19930057550
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Hoehn, A.
(Colorado Univ. Boulder, United States)
Kliss, M. H.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Luttges, M. W.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Robinson, M. C.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Stodieck, L. S.
(Colorado Univ. Boulder, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 1992
Subject Category
Man/System Technology And Life Support
Report/Patent Number
SAE PAPER 921389
Meeting Information
Meeting: SAE, International Conference on Environmental Systems
Location: Seattle, WA
Country: United States
Start Date: July 13, 1992
End Date: July 16, 1992
Sponsors: SAE
Accession Number
93A41547
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAGW-1197
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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