The European Space Agency (ESA) has initiated the development of a system for Extra Vehicular Activities (EVA), which will allow European astronauts to work in space. The key element in this development is a space suit. The envisaged European space suit will use more advanced technologies compared with present US and USSR designs and thus represents a new generation of space suits.This paper provides the development status of critical technologies started in this pre-development phase with respect to the EVA life support functions. The results of these technology investigations on breadboard model level will be used as starting point for the Phase C/D to reduce the development risk. This European EVA Space Suit System (ESSS) shall be operational for the first manned HERMES flight in 1999.
EVA Life Support Design Advancements
Sae Technical Papers
International Conference On Environmental Systems ; 1990
1990-07-01
Conference paper
English
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