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Monitoring of Air and Water Quality in Long-Term and Interplanetary Space Flights

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A rationale for the concept and strategy of monitoring of the atmospheric chemical composition and water quality are provided for manned spacecraft to be used for long-term and interplanetary flights. The main risk factors are formulated for a change in atmospheric and water composition during interplanetary space flights. A promising version of the analytical system for operational control of air and water quality in manned spacecraft is described considering these risk factors. Several gas analysis methods are proposed to be used in this system to partially overlap the nomenclature of detected species with respect to particularly important (critical) species. The water quality in the system is monitored by two instruments: one for measuring the total carbon content and the other for analyzing the ionic composition of water.

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  1. Kurchatov Institute National Research Center, 123182, Moscow, Russia

    G. Yu. Grigor’ev, A. S. Lagutin, Sh. Sh. Nabiev, A. A. Vasil’ev, V. M. Semenov & D. B. Stavrovskii

  2. Institute of Medical and Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 123007, Moscow, Russia

    O. I. Orlov, L. N. Mukhamedieva, Yu. E. Sinyak & A. A. Pakhomova

  3. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 141701, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, Russia

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    B. K. Zuev & V. A. Filonenko

  5. St. Petersburg State University, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia

    D. O. Kirsanov

  6. Prokhorov Institute of General Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    D. B. Stavrovskii

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Grigor’ev, G.Y., Lagutin, A.S., Nabiev, S.S. et al. Monitoring of Air and Water Quality in Long-Term and Interplanetary Space Flights. Cosmic Res 58, 12–20 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010952520010025

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