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Do spacesuits contain any metals or other materials that would block a Bluetooth or Bluetooth style signal?
I know there is a difference between EVA and IVA suits so one might when the other doesn't.
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Are suits in the NBL pressurized differently than during flight?
I don't know why I've been in a spacesuit mood lately, but the following crossed my mind recently: the flexible portions of NASA'S EMU suits are inflated by the interior pressure the suits in the ...
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Draper Labs' Control Moment Gyroscope Spacesuit
Back in 2013/2014 Draper Laboratory announced that they were designing and testing a "spacesuit jetpack" that employed control moment gyroscopes (CMG) to allow astronauts to preform EVAs ...
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Why do EVA suits have legs?
Why do EVA suits have legs? Planetary exploration suits (PES) obviously need legs. Spacesuits with legs are “a classic icon of human space exploration” and a requirement for mobility. https://www....
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Pressurized gloves have significant limitations. What are objective advantages/disadvantages of the alternatives? [closed]
Conventional EVA suits suffer from mobility and tactile sensory limitations due to their pressurization. Any articulated container which changes volume with motion will resist motion if pressurized. ...
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Novel EVA spacesuit designs
I'm looking for a collection of novel EVA suit designs, which are serious (are more than a mere art station create) There is of course the BioSuit: 1, 2.
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Can space suit gloves hear, feel, or otherwise sense information through augmentation? Will they?
@mdouglasbibbey's answer describes a situation where it was impossible to "hear" = feel important information while working on Hubble during an EVA, including haptic feedback when a quick ...
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Specifications on ISS EVA suit cameras
The suits that astronauts use to preform EVA's on the ISS have some sort of "TV camera" with which they stream analog video back to the ISS and then back to Earth so that we can see it on ...
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A Parmitano ‘maneuver’
Referring to the 2013 incident when Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano suffered a leak in his EVA suit causing water to build up dangerously around his face. By the time he was approaching the airlock, ...
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Plans for HUD in next-generation spacesuits
A HUD (Head Up Display) allows a computer to display information directly into a user's line of sight and thus allows them to interface with that computer without needing to look at a tablet or ...
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Can an astronaut have a private communication during a spacewalk?
In this NASA page it describes an astronaut remaining in contact during an EVA. While inside these pressurized suits, it's essential that they (the astronauts) remain in constant communication with ...
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What sounds do astronauts hear inside their helmets during an EVA?
Besides the communications over the headsets, do astronauts hear any other sounds inside their helmets? Do they hear their own breath? Are there any mechanical sounds audible? Does the circulating ...
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Do any spacesuit designs (including prototypes, conceptual, etc) use radiators rather than open-loop cooling?
Answers to: How have space suits dissipated the heat removed from astronauts? explain how USA suits currently use open-loop cooling. Typically, space suits must dissipate several hundred watts of heat ...
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In layman's terms, how hot will the skin of a spacecraft become, 144 million miles from the Sun?
Ok, last week I asked how hot would a piece of metal become at a distance from Earth to Mars facing the Sun. Thank you for all the nice replies, but I do not have much math knowledge. So let me ...
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Can astronauts in currently planned pressure suits survive a cabin which cannot be repressurized?
Imagine the Crew Dragon (or Stariner or Orion) has just achieved orbit. Due to a manufacturing flaw or a meteor, the window suddenly blows out. All 6 of the crew manages to get their suit visor's ...
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