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Space
Habitat Design
ASEN 5158
Fall 2008
Instructor: Dr. David Klaus
telephone: (303) 492-3525
email: klaus@colorado.edu
Note: As of Fall 2008, ASEN 5158 Space Habitat Design has been modified to incorporate the material previously covered in ASEN 5116 Spacecraft Life Support Systems. As such, ASEN 5158 still deals with the wide breadth of human spacecraft subsystem design requirements as before, but also now goes into depth on the life support specifics that were previously only addressed in ASEN 5116. Both classes used to be essentially half lecture-based and half group project-based. Under this reorganized flow, however, the combined lecture material has now all been rolled into ASEN 5158 with the project experience following as a separate course listing in the spring semester.
Date & Time:
T/Th 0930-1045
Location: TBD
Office Hours: TBD
Textbooks:
1. Human Spaceflight Mission Analysis and Design, eds. Larson and Pranke, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., NY, Space Technologies Series, 2000
2. Spaceflight Life Support and Biospherics, Peter Eckart, Space Tech. Library Vol. 5, Kluwer Academic Publishers & Microcosm Press, 1996
Course Objectives
Utilizes systems engineering methods for designing a spacecraft intended for human occupancy and provides a working knowledge of the technologies used to sustain life. Emphasis is placed on deriving functional requirements from stated mission objectives, developing integrated vehicle schematics, and comparing design options by trade study.
Course Overview
Introduction to Human Spaceflight
Requirements
Designing Human
Space Missions
Design Drivers
Space Environments – Orbital and Surfaces
Human Physiology, Human Factors and Psychology
Safety and Reliability
System Design
Definitions, Requirement Hierarchy (0,1,2,3) and Design Phases (A,B,C/D,E)
Designing and Sizing Space Elements
Flight Vehicles
Surface
Bases
Environmental Control & Life Support Subsystem (ECLSS)
Life Support Requirements Drivers and Habitability Factors – i.e. the human in the loop
Fundamentals of terrestrial ecology and scaling down to spacecraft constraints
Functional LSS Schematic Flow Diagram
Historical Overview of Spacecraft Life Support Systems
ECLSS Subsystem Technologies
Atmosphere Management
Water Management
Food Supply
Waste Processing
Physico-Chemical vs. Bioregenerative Life Support Approaches
Crew Accommodations
Extravehicular Activity (EVA)
Power
Thermal Control
Command, Control and Communication (C3)
Structures
Propulsion, Launch and Transfer Vehicles
in situ Resource Utilization (ISRU)
Technology Readiness Level (TRL) and Equivalent System Mass (ESM)
Subsystem Integration and Interface Definitions
Operations
Logistics Support and
Grading Breakdown - TBD
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