HAVE SPACE SUIT WILL TRAVEL

Space Suits are currently mini space ships with a single occupant, hence their immense weight, complexity and cost.

This product is a first principles approach as to how to keep a human alive, comfortable and able to operate in a vacuum first, micro gravity second, and low gravity environs third. At the lowest possible cost.

We look for water when we look for life, not atmosphere. Humans are capable of living immersed in water for extended periods of time with little to no physiological harm, or even discomfort. All physiological functions human bodies can do in atmo can be done under water.

The one caveat being a pneumatic system within our cranium. Around and through which most of our sensory organs function. As such,

The body of the wearer is immersed in water, encased in Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) material that sits 1cm proud around the wearers body, filled with water. Circa 17 liters of water. At the shoulders sits a hard carapace, and a neck enclosure, to keep the water around the body only. On the shoulders are mounted a perfect sphere (strongest structure, material to be finalised), with bottom 1/3 cut off.

Water for the body. Air for the head.

A backpack with water thermal management, as well as oxygen creation and co2 scrubbing apparatus are to be developed.

The aim would be for suit, ~30kg and backpack, ~30kg to be the whole unit. Cost would start at the low millions for development articles, and mass produced suits would be in the 100's of thousands. Multiple orders of magnitude difference in price points.

Current space suits mass over 130kg, cost in the tens of millions of dollars per unit.

Australia has a profound wet-suit type industrial base to support the surf industry. It would be an ideal arbitrage to utilise existing industrial base to develop a new, aerospace industry, based in Australia, catering to world wide demand.