Updated Environmental Control System for the X-38 Crew Return Vehicle 1999-01-1935
A small team of NASA engineers continues to work on development of the X-38 Experimental Crew Return Vehicle (CRV). The project has continued to take incremental steps, by building and conducting atmospheric flight tests on a series of increasingly-complex vehicles. The project culminates with fabrication and flight test of a space vehicle (designated as V-201), with a projected flight as a space shuttle payload in late 2000 or 2001.
The emphasis for this paper will be to discuss the current status of the X-38 project, describe in further detail the vehicle-level requirements and design approach, discuss the Environmental Control and Life Support (ECLS) system-level requirements and design, recent system updates, and assembly and component-level details. Additionally, data will be presented from the most relevant analyses and tests which have been used to validate the system design and component selections
Citation: Dingell, C., Quintana, C., Hafermalz, D., and Keener, J., "Updated Environmental Control System for the X-38 Crew Return Vehicle," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-1935, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-1935. Download Citation
Author(s):
Charles W. Dingell, Clemente Quintana, David Scott Hafermalz, John F. Keener
Affiliated:
Crew and Thermal Systems Division, NASA Johnson Space Center, Dual Incorporated, Lockheed-Martin Space Operations
Pages: 15
Event:
International Conference On Environmental Systems
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Spacecraft
Flight tests
Control systems
Assembling
Fabrication
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