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SOFTWARE: Detecting Air Leaks in the Space Station.
NDT Update, September, 2003
A new software system designed by a University at Buffalo aerospace engineer will help NASA detect and find air leaks in the International Space Station (ISS).
The software will be installed in NASA's mission control when the manned space station is expanded from its current eight-module configuration to its final 15-module configuration, according to John L. Crassidis, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Crassidis developed the software with UB aerospace engineering graduate student Jong-Woo Kim and Adam L. Dershowitz, an engineer with United Space Alliance. Their work was funded by a $158,000 grant from NASA.
The software can determine in which module a leak has...
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