The AES Atmosphere Resource Recovery & Environmental Monitoring (ARREM) for Long Duration Exploration Project project is maturing Atmosphere Revitalization Systems (ARS) and Environmental Monitoring (EM) systems that will reduce risk, lower lifecycle cost, and validate operational process design and system architectural concepts for future human exploration missions. The project is maturing these technologies using the ISS state-of-the-art hardware as a point of departure. This project merged into the AES Life Support Systems Project in FY15.
The project focuses on key physico-chemical process technologies for Atmosphere Revitalization Systems (ARS) that increase reliability, capability, and consumable mass recovery as well as reduce requirements for power, volume, heat rejection, and crew involvement. For the Environmental Monitoring (EM) systems effort, the project is developing and demonstrating onboard analysis capabilities that will replace the need to return air and water samples to earth for ground analysis. This effort is addressing these challenges by adopting a new architecture that is based on the modular integration of multiple sensing modalities, employing a hybrid combination of simple, rugged technologies and, where needed, highly capable complex approaches, to completely address monitoring needs of the future. It incorporates Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) technologies to enable significant miniaturization over current systems, and selects elements offering both low resources and high reliability operation for affordability. The project is developing, demonstrating and/or testing leading process technology candidates and system architectures that will meet or exceed current requirements and fill capability gaps or significantly improve the efficiency, safety, and reliability over the state-of-the-art (SOA). The project's main goal is to demonstrate test articles (at various technology readiness levels) in a ground test facility under relevant flight conditions.
More »The project is advancing the technical maturity of candidate technologies for a flexible Atmosphere Revitalization Systems (ARS) and Environmental Monitoring (EM) systems architectures spanning the range of exploration mission objectives and vehicle concepts, thus providing risk reduction and developmental economy to flight project development programs.
Anticipated benefits include:
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Organizations Performing Work | Role | Type | Location |
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Lead Organization | NASA Center | Huntsville, AL |
Aerfil, LLC | Supporting Organization | Industry | NY |
Al Razaq Computing Services | Supporting Organization | Industry | |
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Supporting Organization | NASA Center | Moffett Field, CA |
Cbana Laboratories | Supporting Organization | Industry | Champaign, IL |
CFD Research Corporation | Supporting Organization | Industry | Huntsville, AL |
Dr. James Ritter | Supporting Organization | Industry | SC |
Dynamac Corp. | Supporting Organization | Industry | |
ECLS Technologies | Supporting Organization | Industry | |
Georgia Institute of Technology | Supporting Organization | Academic | Atlanta, GA |
Giner Electrochemical Systems, LLC | Supporting Organization | Industry | Newton, MA |
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Supporting Organization | NASA Center | Cleveland, OH |
Honeywell | Supporting Organization | Industry | |
Jacobs Engineering Group | Supporting Organization | Industry | |
Jacobs ESSA (Engineering Center Support Contract) | Supporting Organization | Industry | AL |
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Supporting Organization | NASA Center | Pasadena, CA |
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Supporting Organization | NASA Center | Houston, TX |
JSC Engineering, Technical, and Science (JETS) | Supporting Organization | Industry | TX |
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Supporting Organization | NASA Center | Kennedy Space Center, FL |
Millennium Engineering and Integration | Supporting Organization | Industry | CA |
MTS MIPSS (Engineering Center Support Contract) | Supporting Organization | Industry | AL |
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Supporting Organization | NASA Center | Washington, DC |
Orbital Technologies Corporation | Supporting Organization | Industry | Madison, WI |
Port City Instruments, LLC | Supporting Organization | Industry | NC |
Precision Combustion, Inc. | Supporting Organization | Industry | North Haven, CT |
QinetiQ North America/ESC | Supporting Organization | Industry | |
Teledyne Brown Engineering | Supporting Organization | Industry | |
Thorleaf Research, Inc. | Supporting Organization | Industry | Santa Barbara, CA |
UMPQUA Research Company | Supporting Organization | Industry | Myrtle Creek, OR |
University of California at Berkeley | Supporting Organization | Academic | Berkeley, CA |
University of California, San Diego | Supporting Organization | Academic | La Jolla, CA |
University of Puerto Rico | Supporting Organization | Industry | San Juan |
Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Supporting Organization | Industry |
Co-Funding Partners | Type | Location |
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National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) | U.S. Government | WV |
U.S. Navy | U.S. Government |
Start: | 3 |
Current: | 3 |
Estimated End: | 5 |