Overview Of The First Year Activities Of The Seeds Project Work
- Paper number
IAC-07-E1.5.07
- Author
Dr. Nicole Viola, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- Coauthor
Mr. Piero Messidoro, Alcatel Alenia Space Italia, Italy
- Coauthor
Prof. Ernesto Vallerani, International Space Pioneers, Italy
- Year
2007
- Abstract
The first edition of the Post Graduate International Master in Space Exploration and Development Systems “SEEDS” started in November 2005 was successfully completed in December 2006. The Project Work is the core activity of SEEDS: it is similar in content to a Preliminary Feasibility Study, performed in Industry, and it pursues the System Engineering approach, which has been applied to a specific Project of Human Space Exploration. The Project Work activities begun in Turin, Italy, and focused on the whys and where of Space Exploration, in particular of Moon Exploration. Top Ten Imperatives were identified and then, once the Mission Statement of the complex scenario that the Students have named ULISSE (hUman Lunar Initial Settlement for Space Exploration) had been formulated. Several building blocks and three mission phases were established and six Element Building Blocks were chosen to be studied at a higher level of details. After the first month in Turin, the Project Work activities were carried on in Toulouse where the Robotic aspects were covered and then in Bremen where the Transportation ones were dealt . The third and last phase of the Project Work, held in Turin, was centered on the conceptual design of the Habitable Modules. The paper illustrates first the ULISSE Mission Phases, in order to give a complete idea of the whole Mission Scenario, and then it focuses on the complete description of the “Conceptual Design Methodology”: Analysis, Mission Analysis, Definition of System Modes of Operation and Completion of System Budgets, in order to define in particular both the Mission and the Architecture of the Architecture Elements. The paper ends with an overview of the main results obtained by the implementation of the design methodology for the development of the Habitable Modules, which are the Permanent Habitable Module (PHM) and the Temporary Habitable Cabin (THC). The PHM and the THC have different functions in terms of duration of Human presence on-board and in terms of environmental constraints. In particular, the PHM is designed to sustain the permanent presence of three crew members for indefinite time. Unlike the PHM, the THC is a pressurized cabin used to support temporary habitation of three crew members in space during the various transfers and on the lunar surface. The positive experience of the First Year Activities of the SEEDS Initiative is brought to evidence and the lesson learned are discussed.
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