Extravehicular activity suits — pressure garments rated for open-space operations and planetary surface work. Higher performance, life support and mobility requirements than IVA.
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"Pressurized mobility and re-entry-to-airlock recovery must be a top-level requirement, not an afterthought"
"Rear-entry and semi-rigid architecture remain highly relevant for surface systems and suitport concepts"
"Dedicated EVA architecture dramatically improved work efficiency vs IEVA"
"Europe proved the rear-entry rapid-donning concept works — but without a funded anchor mission the architecture never matured"
"Orbital EVA systems must be treated as maintainable fleets, not isolated suits"
"Long-life EVA programs shift from design problems to sustainment, anomaly and industrial-base problems"
"Pragmatic dual-track approach — import to reduce mission risk while demonstrating domestic capability simultaneously"
"Exploration programs need firm mass control and stable mission assumptions before subsystem elaboration begins"
"Once a suit becomes a fleet asset, lifecycle economics and telemetry matter more than peak performance figures"
"Modern lunar design explicitly built around mobility, fit range and maintainability lessons from legacy systems"
"Lunar suit must be treated as a new architecture branch — not an incremental Feitian derivative — due to dust, terrain and thermal differenc…"
