Abstract
Environmental Controls and Life-Support System (ECLSS) are definitely the most vital elements of any manned space mission architecture. In the past decades, a great amount of work has been dedicated to studying the buffer capacities and the stabilities of artificial biospheres, and surveying the challenges that humans will encounter during long-term presence in the hostile environment of space. These have been performed through long duration confinement tests and remote outpost habitations, which contain expensive hardware and infrastructures. In contribution to such studies and to ease the process, an exhaustive computer program, which is the first of its kind, is produced in MATLAB to design, analyze and optimize the elements and structures of life-support systems for shortterm, mid-term, and long-term human space missions. It contains a Graphical User Interface (GUI) in which the data are entered and by which the program is run. All the related physiological concepts are math-modeled and incorporated into the computer algorithm. An optimized design is presented by the program based on a selection or combination of supplies, physical-chemical processes, bio-regenerative processes, and ”In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) approaches to minimize the need for costly resupply missions and to provide the imperative re-assurances of self-sufficiency to crewmembers on remote outposts. The results obtained by running this program will give an opportunity to designers to devise their desired human space missions for the given mission requirements.
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