Basic design of Apollo space-suit assembly was adapted to include personal liquid-cooling approach, developed at British Royal Aircraft Establishment; this required addition of major subsystem to Apollo Portable Life Support System (PLSS); previous PLSS design relied upon gas cooling to absorb metabolic and external heat loads; modified PLSS which retains gas-ventilation loop at greatly reduced flow rates, incorporates liquid pump, heat exchanger, and associated controls; design details and performance of system; advantages of liquid concept as it affects system weight, volume, and thermal capacity.


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    Titel :

    Apollo portable life-support system -- Development status


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    ASME -- Paper


    Beteiligte:
    Kincaid, W.C. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    ASME Meeting AV-45 ; 1965 Life support systems



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1965


    Format / Umfang :

    5 pages


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch


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