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3.3.2.4 Baseline design<br />

HMM<br />

Assessment Study<br />

Report: CDF-20(A)<br />

February 2004<br />

page 162 of 422<br />

Given the need to provide a two-failure tolerant life support system and the dimensions of the<br />

spacecraft, the life support system has been designed in a modular approach concentrating the<br />

bulk of the life support system in particular modules similar to Node2 and Node3 of the ISS. The<br />

study suggests using two independent life support systems. The size of the vehicle, previous<br />

experience on ISS and safety considerations led to this conclusion.<br />

In addition, an additional non-regenerative life support system has been added to the<br />

stormshelter to allow the crew full control of the life support system during their stay in the<br />

shelter. The life support system is a relatively simple open loop system based on the supply of<br />

consumables and the short-term storage of products.<br />

The THM LSS does not take advantage of the MEV life support system features. A trade-off<br />

analysis revealed that no major mass benefit would be achieved if the THM LSS took advantage<br />

of the MEV LSS.<br />

Figure 3-31 illustrates the design of the life support system with its major components. Only one<br />

of the redundant systems is shown in the blue box. The LSS inside the red box illustrates the<br />

stormshelter LSS.<br />

Figure 3-31: Mars THM LSS design

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