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Author
Cramer, K. R. | Irvine, T. F., Jr.
Title
Attenuation of Nonuniform Suit Temperatures for Space Suits in Orbit.
Coporate
Aerospace Research Labs., Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook
Sponsor
Air Force Systems Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH
Report
AMRL-TDR-63-80, September 1963, 14 p.
Contract
PROJECT-NO.-6301 TASK-NO.-630104
Keywords
space suits | attenuation | temperature differences
Identifiers
water jacket space suit; solar and metabolic heating; water flow rates; design parameters; thermal environment; orbit
Abstract
A cylindrical model of a water jacket space suit exposed to solar and metabolic heating was examined to determine the water flow rates required to reduce large equilibrium suit temperature differences.