life-support system
noun
: an artificial or natural system that provides all or some of the items (such as oxygen, food, water, control of temperature and pressure, disposition of carbon dioxide and body wastes) necessary for maintaining life or health
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News reports asked how much oxygen might be left in the submersible’s life-support system.
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William J. Broad, New York Times, 10 June 2024
Launched in 2000, the Zvezda Service Module provides living quarters and performs some life-support system functions.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
Coogan was trained in technical skills including spacecraft systems, flight engineering, robotics and life-support systems.
—Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 22 May 2024
Buildings and communities function as life-support systems.
—William McDonough, Scientific American, 1 July 2017
The challenge Orbital Reef faces is considerable: reimagining successful earthbound technologies—such as regenerative life-support systems, expandable habitats and 3D printing—but now in orbit, on a commercially viable platform.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 May 2024
The 10-day mission, which retraces the 2022 flight of the uncrewed Artemis 1, will test life-support systems.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2023
Japan's government has committed to providing the life-support system for the Gateway's international habitation module, along with resupply services to deliver cargo to Gateway.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2023
It is slated to launch in 2029 with Artemis V.
Dettmann described several major challenges in developing the ESPRIT, including devising a way to refuel the electric propulsion systems, designing deployable radiators, and devising environmental-control and life-support systems.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2023
William J. Broad, New York Times, 10 June 2024
Launched in 2000, the Zvezda Service Module provides living quarters and performs some life-support system functions.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
Coogan was trained in technical skills including spacecraft systems, flight engineering, robotics and life-support systems.
—Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 22 May 2024
Buildings and communities function as life-support systems.
—William McDonough, Scientific American, 1 July 2017
The challenge Orbital Reef faces is considerable: reimagining successful earthbound technologies—such as regenerative life-support systems, expandable habitats and 3D printing—but now in orbit, on a commercially viable platform.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 May 2024
The 10-day mission, which retraces the 2022 flight of the uncrewed Artemis 1, will test life-support systems.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2023
Japan's government has committed to providing the life-support system for the Gateway's international habitation module, along with resupply services to deliver cargo to Gateway.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2023
It is slated to launch in 2029 with Artemis V.
Dettmann described several major challenges in developing the ESPRIT, including devising a way to refuel the electric propulsion systems, designing deployable radiators, and devising environmental-control and life-support systems.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2023
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“Life-support system.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life-support%20system. Accessed 29 Jun. 2024.
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