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Author
Crammer, K. R. | Irvine, T. F., Jr.
Title
Analysis of Nonuniform Suit Temperatures for Space Suite 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
MRL-TDR-62-8, March 1962, 13 p.
Contract
PROJECT-NO.-6301 TASK-NO.-630104
Keywords
space suits | temperature differences | temperature control
Identifiers
solar and metabolic heating; design criteria; suit shell thicknesses; light-metal suits; water-filled suit shell; thermal environment; orbit
Abstract
A cylindrical model of a space suit exposed to solar and metabolic heating is examined to determine the design criteria for minimizing equilibrium temperature differences.