1. The Mini-Earth facility and present status of habitation experiment program
- Author
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Keiji Nitta
- Subjects
Atmospheric Science ,Aerospace Engineering ,Environment controlled ,Plant Development ,computer.software_genre ,USable ,Plant cultivation ,Water Purification ,Japan ,Waste Management ,Animals ,Humans ,Air Conditioning ,Carbon Radioisotopes ,Animal Husbandry ,Life support system ,business.industry ,Scale (chemistry) ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Agriculture ,Space Flight ,Environment, Controlled ,Plant development ,Geophysics ,Space and Planetary Science ,Air conditioning ,Facility Design and Construction ,Systems engineering ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Environmental science ,business ,Space simulator ,computer ,Ecological Systems, Closed ,Life Support Systems ,Space Simulation - Abstract
The history of construction of the CEEF (the Mini-Earth), the configuration and scale of the CEEF are initially described. The effective usable areas in plant cultivation and animal holding and habitation modules and the accommodation equipment installed in each module are also explained. Mechanisms of the material circulation systems belonging to each module and subsystems in each material circulation system are introduced. Finally the results of pre-habitation experiments conducted until the year 2004 for clarifying the requirements in order to promote final closed habitation experiments are shown.
- Published
- 2005