Source Files & Provenance

Research Library

The NASA PSI files behind each investigation, with where each one was retrieved from.

20 investigations

Source Priority

How OrbitFlame ranks the kinds of sources it can draw on.

Tier 1

NASA Physical Sciences Informatics (PSI)

Primary microgravity combustion investigation records, test matrices, and flight telemetry tables.

Used as verified data once the source file is located.

Tier 2

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Authoritative NASA technical memorandums, facility descriptions, and peer-reviewed contractor reports.

Cited with document title, URL, page and table.

Tier 3

NASA Task Book & Program Briefings

Investigation objective summaries, planned campaign scopes, and PI metadata.

Planned studies without experimental results remain tagged PLANNED — never promoted to measured data.

Tier 4

Peer-Reviewed Archival Publications

Published combustion journals explicitly referencing NASA flight or drop-tower test campaigns.

Cited with exact publication metadata and primary document verification status.

Tier 5

Third-Party Commentary / Non-NASA Datasets

Supplementary commentary or non-NASA datasets. None are used in this index.

Must carry explicit non-NASA provenance banners; NEVER relabeled as verified NASA measurements.

All files: Experimental table / test matrix downloaded from psi.nasa.gov.

Investigation	Data File	PSI Link
PSI-25 BASS-II — Burning and Suppression of Solids - II	Experimental table BASS-II.csv	Open
PSI-26 BASS — Burning and Suppression of Solids	Science Documents As Run Test Matrix.xlsx	Open
PSI-98 SAFFIRE-I — Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment-I	Experimental table SAFFIRE-1.csv	Open
PSI-99 SAFFIRE-II — Spacecraft Fire Experiment-II	Experimental table SAFFIRE-2.csv	Open
PSI-100 SAFFIRE-III — Spacecraft Fire Experiment-III	Experimental table SAFFIRE-3.csv	Open
PSI-10 ACME/Flame Design — Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments / Flame Design	Experimental table Flame Design Inverse Flame.csv; PSI-10 Experimental table Flame Design Normal Flame.csv	Open
PSI-20 ACME BRE — Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments - Burning Rate Emulator	Experimental table ACME BRE.csv	Open
PSI-21 ACME CLD Flame — Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments / Coflow Laminar Diffusion Flame	Experimental table CLD Flame.csv	Open
PSI-22 ACME E-FIELD Flames — Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments Electric-Field Effects on Laminar Diffusion Flames	Experimental table ACME E-FIELD Flames.csv	Open
PSI-60 SPICE-Model — Computational and Experimental Analysis of SPICE Data Sets	investigation.json	Open
PSI-107 SPICE — Smoke Point In Co-flow Experiment	Experimental table Spice.csv	Open
PSI-159 ACME CFI-G — Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments / Cool Flames Investigation with Gases	Experimental table CFI-G Inverse Flames.csv; PSI-159 Experimental table CFI-G Normal Flames.csv	Open
PSI-39 CFI — Cool Flames Investigation	Science Documents CFI DataSummary Spreadsheet Jan2021.xlsx	Open
PSI-68 FLEX-2 — Flame Extinguishment Experiment - 2	RDTST01 and LCTF001 Radiometer Readings.xlsx	Open
PSI-69 FLEX — Flame Extinguishment Experiment	Experimental table FLEX.csv	Open
PSI-142 CFI-Counterflow — Quantitative Studies of Cool Flame Transitions at Radiation / Stretch Extinction Using Counterflow Flames	investigation.json	Open
PSI-47 DAFT / DAFT-2 — Dust and Aerosol Measurement Feasibility Test / Dust and Aerosol Measurement Feasibility Test-2	Experimental table DAFT.csv	Open
PSI-101 SAME-R — Smoke Aerosol Measurement Experiment-Reflight	Experimental table SAME-R.csv	Open
PSI-102 SAME — Smoke and Aerosol Measurement Experiment	Experimental table SAME.csv	Open
PSI-115 SAME-Sim — Utilization of the Smoke Aerosol Measurement Experiment Data for Advanced Modeling and Simulation of Smoke Generation in Micro-Gravity	investigation.json	Open

Dataset Validator

Check a Dataset Before Import

Paste investigation JSON to check schema, units and duplicate IDs. Nothing is saved.

Investigation JSON (example: PSI-100 record)

[
  {
    "id": "PSI-100",
    "name": "SAFFIRE-III — Spacecraft Fire Experiment-III",
    "acronym": "SAFFIRE-III",
    "family": "SAFFIRE",
    "objective": "The objectives of this investigation were to:\n(1) determine how rapidly a large scale fire grows in low-gravity and (2) investigate the low-g flammability limits compared to those obtained in NASA’s normal gravity material flammability screening test.",
    "summary": "SAFFIRE-III (PSI-100, Saffire III enclosure in Cygnus, International Space Station (ISS)). 2 test runs from NASA PSI (DOI 10.60555/040q-4h36).",
    "safetyDomains": [
      "PREVENTION"
    ],
    "gravityEnvironments": [
      "Microgravity (0 g)"
    ],
    "provenanceStatus": "NASA_VERIFIED_DATA",
    "evidenceLevel": "DIRECT",
    "source": {
      "sourceDocumentId": "PSI-100_Experimental table_SAFFIRE-3.csv",
      "sourceTitle": "NASA PSI PSI-100: PSI-100_Experimental table_SAFFIRE-3.csv",
      "sourceUrl": "https://psi.nasa.gov",
      "pageNumber": null,
      "sectionHeading": "Experimental table / test matrix downloaded from psi.nasa.gov",
      "tableFigureLabel": null,
      "rowOrRecordKey": null,
      "verificationStatus": "VERIFIED"
    },
    "testRuns": [
      {
        "id": "PSI-100-2-S1",
        "sourceRunKey": "PSI-100_Experimental table_SAFFIRE-3.csv · csv · row 2",
        "label": "S1 · SIBAL cotton-fiberglass",
        "objectiveVariant": "SIBAL Fabric, Flat Slab, Concurrent",
        "conditions": [
          {
            "parameterKey": "oxygen_concentration",
            "valueOriginal": null,
            "textOriginal": null,
            "unitOriginal": null,
            "valueSi": null,
            "unitSi": null,
            "missingStatus": "NOT_REPORTED",
            "source": null
          },
          {
            "parameterKey": "pressure",
            "valueOriginal": null,
            "textOriginal": null,
            "unitOriginal": null,
            "valueSi": null,
            "unitSi": null,
            "missingStatus": "NOT_REPORTED",
            "source": null
          },
          {
            "parameterKey": "airflow",
            "valueOriginal": 30,
            "textOriginal": null,
            "unitOriginal": "cm/s",
            "valueSi": 0.3,
            "unitSi": "m/s",
            "missingStatus": "PRESENT",
            "source": {
              "sourceDocumentId": "PSI-100_Experimental table_SAFFIRE-3.csv",
              "sourceTitle": "NASA PSI PSI-100: PSI-100_Experimental table_SAFFIRE-3.csv",
              "sourceUrl": "https://psi.nasa.gov",
              "pageNumber": null,
              "sectionHeading": "Experimental table / test matrix downloaded from psi.nasa.gov",
              "tableFigureLabel": null,
              "rowOrRecordKey": null,
              "verificationStatus": "VERIFIED"
            }
          },
          {
            "parameterKey": "gravity",
            "valueOriginal": null,
            "textOriginal": "Microgravity (0 g)",
            "unitOriginal": null,
            "valueSi": null,
            "unitSi": null,
            "missingStatus": "PRESENT",
            "source": {
              "sourceDocumentId": "PSI-100_Experimental table_SAFFIRE-3.csv",
              "sourceTitle": "NASA PSI PSI-100: PSI-100_Experimental table_SAFFIRE-3.csv",
              "sourceUrl": "https://psi.nasa.gov",
              "pageNumber": null,
              "sectionHeading": "Experimental table / test matrix downloaded from psi.nasa.gov",
              "tableFigureLabel": null,
              "rowOrRecordKey": null,
              "verificationStatus": "VERIFIED"
            }
          },
          {
            "parameterKey": "gravity_value",
            "valueOriginal": 0,
            "textOriginal": null,
            "unitOriginal": "g",
            "valueSi": null,
            "unitSi": null,
            "missingStatus": "PRESENT",
            "source": {
              "sourceDocumentId": "PSI-100_Experimental table_SAFFIRE-3.csv",
              "sourceTitle": "NASA PSI PSI-100: PSI-100_Experimental table_SAFFIRE-3.csv",
              "sourceUrl": "https://psi.nasa.gov",
              "pageNumber": null,
              "sectionHeading": "Experimental table / test matrix downloaded from psi.nasa.gov",
              "tableFigureLabel": null,
              "rowOrRecordKey": null,
              "verificationStatus": "VERIFIED"
            }
          },
          {
            "parameterKey": "effective_gravity",
            "valueOriginal": 0.73,
            "textOriginal": null,
            "unitOriginal": "g (proxy)",
            "valueSi": null,
            "unitSi": null,
            "missingStatus": "PRESENT",
            "source": {
              "sourceDocumentId": "PSI-100_Experimental table_SAFFIRE-3.csv",
              "sourceTitle": "NASA PSI PSI-100: PSI-100_Experimental table_SAFFIRE-3.csv",
              "sourceUrl": "https://psi.nasa.gov",
              "pageNumber": null,
              "sectionHeading": "Experimental table / test matrix downloaded from psi.nasa.gov",
              "tableFigureLabel": null,
              "rowOrRecordKey": null,
              "verificationStatus": "VERIFIED"
            }
          },
          {
            "parameterKey": "effective_gravity_method",
            "valueOriginal": null,
            "textOriginal": "convective_velocity_equivalence",
            "unitOriginal": null,
            "valueSi": null,
            "unitSi": null,
            "missingStatus": "PRESENT",
            "source": {
              "sourceDocumentId": "PSI-100_Experimental table_SAFFIRE-3.csv",
              "sourceTitle": "NASA PSI PSI-100: PSI-100_Experimental table_SAFFIRE-3.csv",
              "sourceUrl": "https://psi.nasa.gov",
              "pageNumber": null,
              "sectionHeading": "Experimental table / test matrix downloaded from psi.nasa.gov",
              "tableFigureLabel": null,
              "rowOrRecordKey": null,
              "verificationStatus": "VERIFIED"
            }
          },
          {
            "parameterKey": "gravity_source",
            "valueOriginal": null,
            "textOriginal": "iss_cygnus_flight_metadata",
            "unitOriginal": null,
            "valueSi": null,
            "unitSi": null,
            "missingStatus": "PRESENT",
            "source": {
              "sourceDocumentId": "PSI-100_Experimental table_SAFFIRE-3.csv",
              "sourceTitle": "NASA PSI PSI-100: PSI-100_Experimental table_SAFFIRE-3.csv",
              "sourceUrl": "https://psi.nasa.gov",
              "pageNumber": null,
              "sectionHeading": "Experimental table / test matrix downloaded from psi.nasa.gov",
              "tableFigureLabel": null,
              "rowOrRecordKey": null,
              "verificationStatus": "VERIFIED"
            }
          }
        ],
        "measurements": [
          {
            "id": "PSI-100-2-S1-sample_thickness",
            "metricKey": "sample_thickness",
            "label": "Sample thickness / nozzle diameter",
            "valueOriginal": 3.3,
            "textOriginal": null,
            "unitOriginal": "mm",
            "valueSi": 3.3,
            "unitSi": "mm",
            "measurementStatus": "REPORTED",
            "missingStatus": "PRESENT",
            "source": {
              "sourceDocumentId": "PSI-100_Experimental table_SAFFIRE-3.csv",
              "sourceTitle": "NASA PSI PSI-100: PSI-100_Experimental table_SAFFIRE-3.csv",
              "sourceUrl": "https://psi.nasa.gov",
              "pageNumber": null,
              "sectionHeading": "Experimental table / test matrix downloaded from psi.nasa.gov",
              "tableFigureLabel": null,
              "rowOrRecordKey": null,
              "verificationStatus": "VERIFIED"
            }
          }
        ],
        "provenanceStatus": "NASA_VERIFIED_DATA"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Validation Report

Accepted0

Warnings0

Rejected1

Row #1 · PSI-100Rejected

Investigation ID "PSI-100" already exists in the active repository index.

Run PSI-100-2-S1 condition "gravity_value" carries unrecognized unit "g".
Run PSI-100-2-S1 condition "effective_gravity" carries unrecognized unit "g (proxy)".