Command Monitoring and Data System

The LSSC Controlled Environment Lab is collectively the controlled environment chambers (CECs) and other associated support labs and equipment. The controlled environment facilities include the CECs, cold room, nutrient preparation lab, tissue culture lab, and harvesting lab. The support labs require monitoring and alarming of critical functions (e.g. temperature of freezers and refrigerators). The CECs require control and monitoring of environmental parameters including, temperature, relative humidity, CO2, and lights.

Image to right: An example of the screens that can be configured with the display manager are the CMDS Overview screen and a chamber detail screen.

The Orbiter Environmental Simulator (OES) Data Stream is provided from the Shuttle and the Space Station to convey packets of data consisting of temperature, CO2 and relative humidity. The Orbiter Environmental Simulator (OES) is a CEC used during a mission to mimic the space-flight environmental parameters received from the OES Data Stream. The Resource Recovery Systems (RRS) are an example of laboratory experiment and include a variety of bioreactors used to process different solid and liquid wastes, i.e., simulated ISS gray water, ISS urine analog, simulated space-mission trash, and Advanced Life Support (ALS) inedible crop residue biomass.

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