Airlock - Revision history

Michel Lamontagne at 14:40, 24 September 2024

2024-09-24T14:40:47Z

Michel Lamontagne: /* Operations */

2024-09-24T14:36:12Z

Operations

Michel Lamontagne at 14:35, 24 September 2024

2024-09-24T14:35:50Z

Michel Lamontagne at 14:23, 24 September 2024

2024-09-24T14:23:37Z

Michel Lamontagne at 02:40, 21 September 2019

2019-09-21T02:40:41Z

Michel Lamontagne at 02:38, 21 September 2019

2019-09-21T02:38:50Z

Michel Lamontagne at 02:34, 21 September 2019

2019-09-21T02:34:42Z

Michel Lamontagne: Started page

2019-09-21T02:28:26Z

Started page

New page

[[File:Airlock.jpg|thumb|600x600px]]

@@ Line 4: / Line 4: @@
 The airlock port shown is 1.2 m wide x 2.2m high.
 ===Operations===
@@ Line 11: / Line 13: @@
 *An airlock used as a docking or berthing port needs some form of mechanical restraint to resist the air pressure between the vehicles/habitats, that is equal to the area of the opening x the pressure in the habitat/vehicles.  Bolted connections are often used for permanent connections, such as those of the ISS.
 *Docking is a maneuver carried out without assistance by the vehicles themselves.  Berthing uses an assistance, such as the ISS arm, to make the connection between the two ports to connect.
 ===Existing ports===
 Berthing ports and docking ports already exist for the ISS and all space vehicles, but these are relatively small or poorly configured for gravity.  They are also often male or female, making them useless for ship to ship connections, or preventing inversions of connections.

@@ Line 9: / Line 9: @@
 *Airlock doors must resist the internal air pressure of the vehicle or habitat, than can carry between 5 and 14,7 psi, or about 4 to 10 tonnes of pressure per meter square.
 *Air into an airlock can flow in from the high pressure of the habitat into the airlock with a simple valve used to control the flow rate.  To extract the air vacuum pumps are required.  These are often positive displacement pumps, that can rapidly reach low pressures.
-*An airlock used a docking or berthing port needs some form of mechanical restraint to resist the air pressure between the vehicles/habitats, that is equal to the area of the opening x the pressure in the habitat/vehicles.  Bolted connections are often used for permanent connections, such as those of the ISS.
+*An airlock used as a docking or berthing port needs some form of mechanical restraint to resist the air pressure between the vehicles/habitats, that is equal to the area of the opening x the pressure in the habitat/vehicles.  Bolted connections are often used for permanent connections, such as those of the ISS.
 *Docking is a maneuver carried out without assistance by the vehicles themselves.  Berthing uses an assistance, such as the ISS arm, to make the connection between the two ports to connect.
 ===Existing ports===
 Berthing ports and docking ports already exist for the ISS and all space vehicles, but these are relatively small or poorly configured for gravity.  They are also often male or female, making them useless for ship to ship connections, or preventing inversions of connections.

@@ Line 4: / Line 4: @@
 The airlock port shown is 1.2 m wide x 2.2m high.
 ===Existing ports===
 Berthing ports and docking ports already exist for the ISS and all space vehicles, but these are relatively small or poorly configured for gravity.  They are also often male or female, making them useless for ship to ship connections, or preventing inversions of connections.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 [[File:Airlock.jpg|thumb|600x600px|A possible airlock, with indexed and double connectors.  Services include Communications, Power, Potable water, Waste water and Heat transfer fluid In and Out.]]Airlocks will be required to access the settlement from the Martian surface, or to connect up [[Surface vehicles|vehicles]] to one another or to [[Habitat|habitats]].
-A rectangular airlock port with a double set of connectors can provide circuit redundancy as well as androgynous connections between any pair of airlocks.  Centering would need to be done mostly using an adjustable suspension on vehicles, although the facing connection could have about 15 degrees of travel and perhaps up to 20 cm of travel in a flexible bellow sleeve.
+A rectangular airlock port with a double set of connectors, such as the one illustrated can provide circuit redundancy as well as androgynous connections between any pair of airlocks.  Centering would need to be done using an adjustable suspension on vehicles or habitat leveling.  The facing connection could have about 15 degrees of travel and perhaps up to 20 cm of travel in a flexible bellow sleeve, making leveling less important.
 The airlock port shown is 1.2 m wide x 2.2m high.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-[[File:Airlock.jpg|thumb|600x600px|A possible airlock, with indexed and double connectors.  Services include Communications, power, potable water, waste water and heat transfer fluid in and out.]]Airlocks will be required to access the settlement from the Martian surface, or to connect up vehicles to one another or to habitats.
+[[File:Airlock.jpg|thumb|600x600px|A possible airlock, with indexed and double connectors.  Services include Communications, Power, Potable water, Waste water and Heat transfer fluid In and Out.]]Airlocks will be required to access the settlement from the Martian surface, or to connect up [[Surface vehicles|vehicles]] to one another or to [[Habitat|habitats]].
-A rectangular airlock with a double set of connectors can provide circuit redundancy as well as androgynous connections between any pair of airlocks.  Centering would need to be done mostly using an adjustable suspension on vehicles, although the facing connection could have about 15 degrees of travel and perhaps up to 20 cm of travel in a flexible bellow sleeve.
+A rectangular airlock port with a double set of connectors can provide circuit redundancy as well as androgynous connections between any pair of airlocks.  Centering would need to be done mostly using an adjustable suspension on vehicles, although the facing connection could have about 15 degrees of travel and perhaps up to 20 cm of travel in a flexible bellow sleeve.
-The airlock is 1.2 x 2.2m.
+The airlock port shown is 1.2 m wide x 2.2m high.
-=== Existing ports ===
+===Existing ports===
 Berthing ports and docking ports already exist for the ISS and all space vehicles, but these are relatively small or poorly configured for gravity.  They are also often male or female, making them useless for ship to ship connections, or preventing inversions of connections.

← Older revision		Revision as of 02:38, 21 September 2019
Line 2:		Line 2:

	A rectangular airlock with a double set of connectors can provide circuit redundancy as well as androgynous connections between any pair of airlocks. Centering would need to be done mostly using an adjustable suspension on vehicles, although the facing connection could have about 15 degrees of travel and perhaps up to 20 cm of travel in a flexible bellow sleeve.		A rectangular airlock with a double set of connectors can provide circuit redundancy as well as androgynous connections between any pair of airlocks. Centering would need to be done mostly using an adjustable suspension on vehicles, although the facing connection could have about 15 degrees of travel and perhaps up to 20 cm of travel in a flexible bellow sleeve.
		+
		+	The airlock is 1.2 x 2.2m.
		+
		+	=== Existing ports ===
		+	Berthing ports and docking ports already exist for the ISS and all space vehicles, but these are relatively small or poorly configured for gravity. They are also often male or female, making them useless for ship to ship connections, or preventing inversions of connections.

← Older revision		Revision as of 02:34, 21 September 2019
Line 1:		Line 1:
−	[[File:Airlock.jpg\|thumb\|600x600px]]	+	[[File:Airlock.jpg\|thumb\|600x600px\|A possible airlock, with indexed and double connectors. Services include Communications, power, potable water, waste water and heat transfer fluid in and out.]]Airlocks will be required to access the settlement from the Martian surface, or to connect up vehicles to one another or to habitats.
		+
		+	A rectangular airlock with a double set of connectors can provide circuit redundancy as well as androgynous connections between any pair of airlocks. Centering would need to be done mostly using an adjustable suspension on vehicles, although the facing connection could have about 15 degrees of travel and perhaps up to 20 cm of travel in a flexible bellow sleeve.