HELSINKI — China’s human spaceflight agency has revealed the exterior design of the spacesuit for the country’s future crewed lunar landing missions. The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) unveiled t…
A suitport is when the whole back opens for donning/doffing. There have been concepts for surface EVA suits where the whole suit stays “outside” of the vehicle and just docks via the suitport so you dont need to worry about tracking regoglith in.
At first glance, the design looks similar to the Apollo lunar suits.
Let’s hope Axiom Space comes through with their suits for NASA. China doesn’t seem like they’re faffing about with their lunar program.
Is that a suit port on the back? If so, more like new Orlans.
Are you referring to the black hose visible at the 1:05 mark in the video? Does this imply that the suit would need to be tethered to the lander?
A suitport is when the whole back opens for donning/doffing. There have been concepts for surface EVA suits where the whole suit stays “outside” of the vehicle and just docks via the suitport so you dont need to worry about tracking regoglith in.
Ooh yeah, I’ve seen some concept art for those. Seems like a neat idea.