Which experiments cover which fire-safety job, and what is still missing?
Fire-Safety Technology Map
Browse the 20 indexed NASA investigations by the fire-safety job they serve, then see which gravity levels have been tested and which are still empty.
Choose a job to see its experiments, then select one for its hardware, fuel and test conditions. Use it to see which hardware and fuels each job relies on, and which jobs rest on only a few experiments.
Links show shared safety domain and program family only; they do not imply causation or hardware qualification.
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Fire Prevention & Material Screening
Ignition, flame spread and extinction of solids (BASS, BASS-II, Saffire), gaseous flames (ACME: Flame Design, BRE, CLD, E-FIELD, CFI-G) and smoke-point behaviour (SPICE) in the indexed PSI tables.
These records inform material screening research; they are not a flight material qualification or safety rating.
Selected experiment
BASS-II — Burning and Suppression of Solids - II
- Fuel / Material
- PMMA, 100 micron film 2 cm wide, 200 micron 2 cm wide, 400 micron film 2 cm wide, 300 micron film 2 cm wide, 2 cm 0.4 mm thick film, Nomex, Wax candle, Black PMMA rod, 1/4 blac rod, SIBAL cotton-fiberglass, 4 cm spherical section
- Gravity Environment
- Microgravity (0 g)
- Oxygen Concentration
- 22.2 %
- Pressure
- NOT REPORTED
- Airflow
- NOT REPORTED
- Measurements
- 413 recorded values
Hardware mapping (from each PSI investigation record)
CIR + ACME
Combustion Integrated Rack with the ACME gaseous-flame experiment
Gaseous fuels: spherical / coflow / burner flames (Flame Design, BRE, CLD, E-FIELD, CFI-G).
CIR + MDCA
Multi-user Droplet Combustion Apparatus inside the CIR
Liquid fuel droplets with O2 / CO2 / He dilution (CFI, FLEX-2, FLEX).
MSG flow tunnel / duct
Microgravity Science Glovebox
BASS-II record: wind tunnel installed in the MSG; SPICE record: flow duct with integrated nozzles. SAME / SAME-R (PSI-101, PSI-102) also ran in the Glovebox with the Comparative Soot Diagnostic hardware. SLICE appears only as attached engineering documents in the PSI-26 / PSI-107 file lists, not as an investigation.
Cygnus enclosure
Saffire enclosure on the Cygnus vehicle
Large solid samples (SIBAL cotton-fiberglass and others) burned after Cygnus left the ISS.
Earth applications: research relevance, not results
These are areas the investigations are relevant to. None of the numbers on this site is a result for these products.
Suppression research
Relevant to: Fine-water-mist and clean-agent fire suppression (including the extinguisher developed for ISS use).
FLEX / FLEX-2 / CFI map droplet-flame extinction against O2, CO2 and He dilution.
The ingested tables contain no water-mist data.
Detection research
Relevant to: Terrestrial smoke detection, including aerosol counters used where dust and smoke must be told apart (e.g. mines, submarines, cleanrooms).
SAME / SAME-R study smoke aerosol aging; DAFT qualified the particle counter against a dust standard.
The ingested tables contain no detector-response or particle-size columns.
Materials and breathing-air safety
Relevant to: Firefighter protective clothing (e.g. Nomex) and high-oxygen breathing-air equipment fire safety.
BASS / BASS-II / Saffire burn Nomex, cotton-fiberglass and PMMA at varied O2 and flow.
The ingested tables contain no garment or air-tank tests.