Following the Colombia accident, the Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMU) onboard ISS were unused for several months. Upon startup, the units experienced a failure in the coolant system. This failure resulted in the loss of Extravehicular Activity (EVA) capability from the US segment of ISS. With limited on-orbit evidence, a team of chemists, engineers, metallurgists, and microbiologists were able to identify the cause of the failure and develop recovery hardware and procedures. As a result of this work, the ISS crew regained the capability to perform EVAs from the US segment of the ISS Figure 1.
Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU)/International Space Station (ISS) Coolant Loop Failure and Recovery
Sae Technical Papers
International Conference On Environmental Systems ; 2006
2006-07-17
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
Mobility , Coolants , Spacecraft , Hardware
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