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Environment and Public Health > Environment > Environment, Controlled > Space Simulation
Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Environment, Controlled > Space Simulation

Preferred term

Space Simulation  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Model, Space
  • Models, Space
  • Orbital Simulation
  • Orbital Simulations
  • Simulation, Orbital
  • Simulations, Orbital
  • Space Model
  • Space Models

Note

  • to test space systems or components by approximating the space environment

Scope note

  • An environment simulating one or more parameters of the space environment, applied in testing space systems or components. Often, a closed chamber is used, capable of approximating the vacuum and normal environments of space. (From NASA Thesaurus, 1988) This also includes simulated EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY studies in atmosphere exposure chambers or water tanks.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018561

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