Orion Portable Fire Extinguisher Performance Testing Against a Laptop Lithium-Ion Battery Stored-Energy Fire-Method, Magnesium Fires, and Combustion By-Product Toxicity [STUB]

Abstract: As part of the qualification of the International Space Station (ISS) fine water mist portable fire extinguisher (PFE), several test methods were developed to determine firefighting capability against stored-energy sources. The most challenging of these devised stored-energy fire test methods proved to be the Lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery fire test scenario. The Orion crew capsule will utilize a different PFE technology from ISS (water spray rather than water mist), which spurred the need for …