The new spacesuit for the Russian manned lunar program may be named "Orlan-Lunar" or "Orlan-L". This was announced by Sergey Pozdnyakov, General Director of NPP Zvezda (part of Roscosmos).
Our "bird" has a good name - "Orlan". There have been so many versions of it, and if it's "Orlan-Lunar", "Lunar", that would be nice. We would have something to name, and we will name it.
Pozdnyakov noted that the company has been successfully conducting research work in this area for the past few years. But at the moment, the preliminary design of the new lunar spacesuit has not yet been commissioned.
The next step should have been a preliminary design for such a spacesuit. But there is no customer for such work today. And I cannot say with certainty when it will be resumed.
According to the General Director of NPP Zvezda, there is a possibility that exoskeleton technologies will be introduced into the new spacesuit. But so far, the company is working primarily in the interests of the Russian Orbital Station.
It is not yet clear about the Moon. If this happens in 10 years, then I do not exclude that we will be able to use such mechanisms to simplify walking.
Earlierwww1.ru reported thatautonomous tests of the Sokol-M spacesuit have been completed.
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