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Full-Scale Trash-to-Gas System Demonstration
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Description
Proposal seeks to manufacture, build, and test a full-scale, flight-forward Trash-to-Gas system for a ground demonstration. Year 1 will be designing of a full scale TtG prototype. Year 2 will be the manufacutring of the prototype for demonstration.
Benefits
Proposal will provide Trash-to-Gas system perofrmance for a crew of 4 over a 33-day continous demonstration. Proposal will provide further understnading on waste logistics over long-duration spaceflights.
Details
| Technology area | Human Health, Life Support, and Habitation Systems > Environmental Control and Life Support Systems and Habitation Systems > Waste Management |
| Program | Agency Independent Research and Development (A-IRAD) |
| Lead organization | Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, FL |
| Start date | 2025-11-01 |
| End date | 2026-09-30 |
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