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A technical, financial, and policy analysis of the RAMSES RFID inventory management system for NASA's International Space Station: prospects for SBIR/STTR technology infusion
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Engineering, management, and social science methodologies have been employed to analyze a new asset tracking and management system for human spaceflight applications. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Aurora ...
Astronaut Extravehicular Activity : safety, injury & countermeasures; &, Orbital collisions & space debris : incidence, impact & international policy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Extravehicular Activity (EVA) spacesuits are a key enabling technology which allow astronauts to survive and work in the harsh environment of space. Of the entire spacesuit, the gloves may perhaps be considered the most ...
A cost model for testing unmanned and autonomous systems of systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
The evolutionary nature of Unmanned and Autonomous Systems of Systems (UASoS) acquisition needs to be matched by equally evolutionary test capabilities in the future. There is currently no standard method to determine what ...
Deployment related mental health care seeking behaviors in the U.S. military and the use of telehealth to mitigate their impacts on access to care
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Interviewees report that groups of service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan often require substantial amounts of mental health care, causing surges in demand at military hospitals. These hospitals have difficulty ...
Unique abilities of hopper spacecraft to enable national objectives for solar system exploration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
In comparison with conventional and other conceived approaches, hopper spacecraft offer unique advantages in exploring Solar System objects beyond Earth. The present work began with a survey - based on documents from the ...
What drives spacecraft innovation? : a quantitative analysis of communication satellite history
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
The overall goal of this research is to develop a better understanding of how innovation can, and should, happen in the space sector. Part A: Towards an Empirical Measure of Spacecraft Innovation, frames the discussion of ...
Multilayer network modeling of change propagation for engineering change management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Engineering change management is a critical and challenging process within product development. One pervasive source of difficulty for this process is the phenomenon of change propagation, by which a change to one part or ...
Addressing design challenges in mechanical counterpressure spacesuit design and space-inspired informal education policy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Extravehicular activity (EVA), or spacewalks allows astronauts to accomplish some of the most important endeavors in space history. The importance of EVA will continue to increase as people venture further into our solar ...
Stakeholder value network analysis for space-based earth observations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
The Earth Science and Applications decadal survey released by the National Research Council in 2007 presents both an ambitious engineering challenge and a challenge for the entire Earth science community to come together ...