Upheaval Space Suit.

Global Nominee

Upheaval Space Suit. received a Global Nomination.

THE CHALLENGE: Rock-IT Space Fashion and Design

Space Station

Out-of-this-world fashion with function: clothing or accessories for earth or space wear!

Every space traveler – even the robotic ones – should feel? their very best during the journey, infused with the very best data and technology available. Earthlings can follow suit. Design a space data-tech-fashion wearable in the form of clothing or accessories that will collect or distribute data and technology in the following categories:

Design for Interconnectivity (staying more connected to team, community, and tools)

enhance the work/life experience of humans and/or capabilities of robots

Design for Health (biometrics, physical and emotional health, and/or environmental alerts)

maintain or improve the health and well-being of the human
provide early warning for unhealthy environmental factors (air quality, radiation, outgassing, temperature)

Design for Entertainment (sights, sounds, music, activity)

enhance the human experience whether during work or play

Explanation

The main idea of this project is to develop an intelligent spacesuit capable of analyzing the internal and external factors such as temperature, blood pressure, weather etc. And take direct actions to maintain the issues.

In terms of intelligence we have added the latest technology to achieve our goal and to deal with various circumstances, and we provided a telecommunication system for network sharing data between the space shuttle and the astronauts as a team in space or on planets, so they can act as a team and share experiences, data or alerts.

And our ambition is to show what is possible, applicable and upheaval.

This approach tries to cover both fashion and design aspects of the space suit ;it has been designed in a modern fashion model. Moreover, it is uni-sexual.

The suit will have a telecommunication system that will provide data and information between the space shuttle, astronaut equipments and between the astronaut themselves to keep them in contact, the idea is to make a network sharing data between the astronauts, that will show the biological functions (heart pulses, body temperature, Blood pressure, proportion of oxygen in the container),the objectives of the mission provided by upgraded info, navigation system to provide upgraded details about the orientation of every astronaut location and an intelligent path coordinator covered by satellite to provide best route during missions and time elapsed and remaining of the mission, all of these aspects would be shown in an internal holo-lens helmet as shown below:

Moreover, there would be an alerts for any sudden changes in the weather, swings in biological functions, warnings for external and internal unhealthy factors such as “weather, temperature, pressure, radiation and leak ", and the data would be upgraded all the time to provide safety from sudden weather change.

The internal helmet contains a hololens screen, with multiple vision methods like infrared, night vision..etc. And the astronaut can switch between those visions depending on data he wants to collect.

For the entertainment, it will be controlled using the voice analyzing system that is similar to SIRI in an IPhone, to switch between the games and choose them, we added augmented reality which it is rich with visual information to make the astronaut relax and to let them feel just like they are at home and a chess game can be played as a multiplayer game between the astronauts themselves, and the mechanism would be using sensitive lens to detect eye movement during that a music would be activated at the background, and to keep in contact with planet earth, the astronaut can post, share and tweet at social media or make live streaming using a POV camera set on his or her chest.

And a game which will help astronauts to move due to the game rules like ( -kinect adventures Xbox ) but it will receive data by some sensors on the astronaut body .

Any astronaut should be covered during his mission with different equipments or accessories during that we present new features just like a Jet, for emergency situations it can be used for escaping thro the rugged terrains and it can controlled using robotic arm connected to the suit - it is optional - and a drone that carries an ultra-wave generator to seek and get the details for any closed places just like caves, and the data will get transferred to the space shuttle to analyze it and resend it to the astronaut so he can get the information as a 3D map using a hologram, the drone will capable to avoid obstacles using high sensitive sensors, and depth sensor to draw the 3D map.

For energy sources we add effective solar cells widespread on the spacesuit as secondary source and batteries as the primary source.

We’re not done yet! An extra drone will be implemented that will be controlled using ‘Drag & Drop' touch command screen, it will provide a live streaming video, location for every astronaut and a weather sensor, the drone is connected with a satellite to get the heights using contort lines, and it will be as transfer tool, to get the astronauts oxygen tanks and since oxygen tanks are heavy, it will carry a percentage of needed oxygen to get our astronaut back to the shuttle in emergency situations, and since it is connected to the astronauts using the telecommunication system during any emergency situation the drone will be activated to get necessarily tools to the astronauts for example if the oxygen tank proportion get lower than 20%, the drone will automatically activated and carry the required rate to the astronaut, and it will get the orientation of the astronaut using the navigation system. Any astronaut has the ability to use it and request the drone, if any of them can’t do that , it is possible for other to request it for him, the command screen is shown below:

However, critical problems remain about the layers that will protect and absorb the cosmic radiations and the harmful waves and keeping the astronaut temperature and pressure in safety region.

Generally the spacesuit makers used layers for many purpose, so they are using Spandex layers for cooling system and to protect astronauts body from heat transfer and radiations , then the next layer is bladder to protect and briefness the pressure, then we add a sheets of Graphene to make the body of the astronauts warm, it's very light and very thin product , then the ripstop layer, wearing this layer provide resistance and addition with darcon to save the difference between the pressure outside and inside, the we add a very useful material for isolation , so it resist heat transfer perfectly! "Silicon aerogel" it can hold out heat transfer from -459,4f to 459 f and the temp on mars is between -131.8 f to 37 f there is almost no heat transfer from the body, then we add the very thin and very light titanium foils to absorb the cosmic radiation which would not be at high cost since its only a foil! There is a paper on the reference about this foils and its ability to absorb the radiation, then we add a silicon rubber with good strength and chemical stability and radiation resistant and then we add more titanium foils to make sure there is no radiations will reach the astronaut body.

Moreover for more protection generally we used Kevlar layers and then we add fabric polyesters to reduce the high speed of the radiation waves, and the helmet is made from polycarbonate and the glass coated by very thin gold layer , the upper torso made from glass fiber , and the gloves is EVA gloves with addition of garaphene to save the hands warm , and boots coated by silicon rubber to protect is from any sudden chemical reaction, and spikes made from nickel alloy with copper or any thing else.

To solve the cosmic rays problems, all electronics must be 'rad hardened' otherwise they will fail to function as desired. In addition we might add other approaches as well: to set up an magnetic field-astronaut-synchronized-drone (MASD) and a titanium foil that reflects most of the radiations .

And for the other problem, just like the CO2 generated from the suit during breathing process, we can use Litholyme it absorbs carbon dioxide as it shown at Resource feed below.

And here is our team: