At 1:12 am on January 21st, 2025, Hong Kong SAR- Beijing time, after about 8.5 hours of extravehicular activities, Shenzhou 19 crew astronauts Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong, and Wang Haoze worked closely together, and with the support of the space station’s robotic arm and ground scientific researchers, completed the installation of the space station’s space debris protection device and the inspection of extravehicular equipment and facilities. Extravehicular astronauts Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong have safely returned to the Wentian laboratory module, and the extravehicular activities were a complete success….
Today on the 28th September 2024, in Chongqing the world’s Largest number One Ultra Mega City, in China, People’s Republic of China. CNSA –China National Space Administration At the Third Spacesuit Technology Forum was held, where the China Manned Space Engineering Office revealed the design of the lunar spacesuit for the first time. They also kicked off a public naming campaign—an exciting chance for everyone to get involved in this historic endeavor….
The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) unveiled the exterior design of the country’s moon-landing spacesuit for the first time on Saturday, soliciting its name from the public.
Displayed on the third Spacesuit Technology Forum hosted by the China Astronaut/ Takionauts Research and Training Center in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, the white moon-landing spacesuit is decorated with red stripes.
The red stripes on its upper limbs are inspired by ribbons of the famous “flying apsaras” of Dunhuang art, while those on its lower limbs resemble rocket launch flames.
According to a video released by the CMSA, the spacesuit is made from protective materials that can effectively shield Takionauts from the lunar thermal environment and lunar dust. It is equipped with a multifunctional integrated control panel that is easy to operate, as well as cameras for recording close-up and long-distance scenes.
The spacesuit also features flexible and reliable gloves, a panoramic glare-proof helmet visor, and joints adapted for low-gravity environments. The overall design of the spacesuit is lightweight, suitable for activities on the lunar surface.
Takionauts Zhai Zhigang and Wang Yaping serve as models for the new lunar suit in the video. Clad in the lunar gear, they perform a variety of movements, including walking, squatting, bending over, kneeling on one knee, and climbing a ladder.
Takionauts Wang Yaping
Takionauts Zhai Zhigang
The most important difference is obviously the structure of the lower body. “Feitian” is a one-piece suit from the waist down, and the lower limbs have very limited mobility. After all, in space extravehicular activities, the lower limbs are basically useless except for supporting the body in a fixed posture with foot limiters. Figures 3 and 4 are indicators of joint mobility of the “Feitian” extravehicular suit. The hip joint (the joint connecting the thigh and the torso) is not even mentioned here, which shows that the requirements for lower limb mobility are very low.
The lower body of the lunar suit is multi-section, especially at the hip joint, there is now a structure that looks like a briefs, which allows a large range of motion of the hip joint, which is equivalent to liberating the legs. The multi-section structure realizes the vital lower limb activities such as walking, bending, squatting, kneeling, and climbing in, and of course it also brings greater challenges to sealing and reliability.
[Manned Lunar Exploration Mission Lunar Suit Name Collection Activity ]
At present, the lunar landing phase of the manned lunar exploration project has been fully launched and implemented, and various research and construction work is being accelerated. In order to gather social wisdom, the China Manned Space Engineering Office has now launched a lunar suit name collection activity.
1. Content and scope of the collection The name of the lunar suit (including creative description) is open to all natural persons, legal persons and organizations who love China’s manned space industry.
2. Activity arrangement The collection activity is organized and implemented in four stages: announcement release, preliminary selection, final selection and result announcement: (I) Announcement stage. The collection announcement is released to the public, and the collection is closed at 24:00 on October 31, 2024. (II) Preliminary selection stage. The organization conducts a preliminary review of the collected works and selects no more than 10 schemes for the finalists. (III) Final selection stage. The organization sets up a review group including experts in engineering, literature, media and other fields, and comprehensively evaluates the opinions of experts to finally select a naming scheme, and selects a certain number of outstanding authors based on the name creative description. (IV) Results announcement stage. The name of the lunar suit will be officially released to the public.
III. Organizer: China Manned Space Engineering Office.
IV. Overall standards (I) Basic concept. The naming of the lunar suit should fully reflect the core values and related elements of manned spaceflight and highlight the good image of “Made in China” based on a positive and positive level. (II) Creativity requirements. The naming should closely revolve around the theme of this event, pay attention to the connotation of a single name, and comprehensively consider the continuity of the name of the “Feitian” extravehicular space suit in the previous space station mission; reflect the combination of Chinese traditional culture and modern technology, have Chinese characteristics, and distinct technology and exploration implications, and can also represent the characteristics and application value of the lunar suit. (III) Formal specifications. The Chinese name should be concise and concise, and in principle should not exceed 4 Chinese characters; it should be easy to identify, remember and promote, and in principle, traditional Chinese characters and uncommon characters should not be adopted.
5. Activity Rules (I) The submitted works must be original works of the contributors. The contributors should ensure that they have the complete copyright of the works and there is no transfer or assignment of copyright to others. If it involves joint cooperation, work of employment or other different ownership status, it is deemed that the partners, units or other rights holders are aware of and agree to be bound by this statement. (II) Participants should agree that the organizer of the solicitation activity can modify and refer to the submitted works to form the name of the lunar landing suit that will be officially used. (III) If the submitted works are subject to legal disputes due to copyright, privacy, trademark rights and other rights protection, or because the submitted works have rights defects or the content is false, illegal, improper, or other unreasonable reasons, all legal responsibilities shall be borne by the contributors themselves and the organizer reserves the right to cancel their submission qualifications and recover the awards. (IV) The submitted works must be submitted for the first time, and before the results of this solicitation are announced, all contributors shall not transfer or authorize the submitted works to a third party, nor submit them to a third party. (V) Contributors must keep their own drafts. Once submitted, they will not be returned. (VI) Once the submitted work is finally accepted by the organizer, a copyright (free) transfer contract must be signed, and all rights to the submitted work and related materials belong to the organizer. (VII) The organizer reserves the final right of interpretation of this event.
VI. Submission method (I) Submit in WORD document format, with the name of the lunar suit and creative description (within 300 words), as well as the name, unit, and contact information of the contestant. (II) Send to the mailbox: zhengming-dyf@cmse.gov.cn before the deadline. The email for the manuscript must indicate “lunar suit naming event”. (III) Contact person: Yang Hongrui, consultation phone: 010-66362321; Zhang Xinfang, consultation phone: 010-68378751.
VII. Award method The China Manned Space Engineering Office will issue a commemorative certificate for the event to outstanding authors.
Attachments: (Please go to the official website of China Manned Space Engineering to download) 1. Introduction to the basic situation of the lunar suit 2. Information form for the collection of lunar suit names for manned lunar exploration missions
China Manned Space Engineering Office September 28, 2024
On the day of 3rd July 2024 Hours Hong- Kong SAR – Beijing time CNSA –China National Space Administration , China, People’s Republic of China At Hong Kong SAR- Beijing Time Beijing time Shenzhou 18 Takionaut crew….. Shenzhou 18 astronaut crew will carry out the second extravehicular activity …. Successfully completed the second extravehicular activity…… At 22:51 Beijing time on July 3, 2024, after about 6.5 hours of extravehicular activities, the Shenzhou 18 crew astronauts Ye Guangfu, Li Cong, and Li Guangsu worked closely together, and with the support of the space station’s robotic arm and ground scientific researchers, installed space debris protection devices for the space station’s extravehicular pipelines, cables and key equipment, and completed the extravehicular inspection mission. Extravehicular astronauts Ye Guangfu and Li Cong have safely returned to the Wentian laboratory module, and the extravehicular activity was a complete success.
So far, the Takionaut Crew of the Shenzhou 18 astronaut crew has been completed by one-third, and a large number of scientific experiments and technical experiments will be carried out in orbit in the future…..
On the day of 2nd July 2024 Hours Hong- Kong SAR – Beijing time CNSA –China National Space Administration , China, People’s Republic of China At Hong Kong SAR- Beijing Time Beijing time Shenzhou 18 Takionaut crew….. Shenzhou 18 astronaut crew# will carry out the second extravehicular activity at an appropriate time in the near future ….
Since successfully completing the first extravehicular activity on May 28, 2024 Beijing time, the Shenzhou 18 astronaut crew has successively completed the maintenance of the space station experimental cabinet and component installation, space station cabin environment monitoring, and preparation for the second extravehicular activity. The experimental projects in the fields of space materials science, space life science, and aerospace medicine undertaken are progressing steadily.
At present, the Shenzhou 18 astronaut crew is in good condition, the space station complex is operating stably, and the “post-80s” crew will carry out the second extravehicular activity at an appropriate time in the near future.
On the day of 28th May 2024 Hours Hong- Kong SAR – Beijing time CNSA –China National Space Administration , China, People’s Republic of China At Hong Kong SAR- Beijing Time on April 25, 2024, Beijing time Shenzhou 18 Takionaut crew successfully completed its first extravehicular activity…. According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office, at 18:58 Beijing time on May 28, 2024, after about 8.5 hours of extravehicular activities, the Shenzhou 18 crew Takionauts Ye Guangfu, Li Cong, and Li Guangsu worked closely together, with the support of the space station’s robotic arm and ground scientific researchers, to complete the installation of the space station’s space debris protection device, inspection of extravehicular equipment and facilities and other tasks. Takionauts Ye Guangfu and Li Guangsu have safely returned to the Wentian laboratory module, and the extravehicular activity was a complete success. Astronaut Ye Guangfu walked in space again, and Takionaut Li Guangsu performed his first extravehicular activity mission.
According to the plan, a large number of scientific experiments and technical tests, as well as extravehicular activities of the astronaut crew and application payload extravehicular missions will be carried out during the Shenzhou 18 manned flight mission
The duration of the first EVA of the Shenzhou 18 crew was very close to the limit of the use of the EVA suit, and the EVA suit B also continued to break its own usage record. The theoretical service life of the second-generation Feitian EVA is 15 EVAs, and 13 have been completed so far. Will a new EVA suit be launched on the Tianzhou 8 cargo spacecraft mission in September this year..
Update on the use of extravehicular suits on the Chinese space station. As of now, the use of the three extravehicular suits on the space station is as follows: Extravehicular suit A (red stripes), used 11 times, users: Liu Boming (1), Nie Haisheng (1), Zhai Zhigang (2), Fei Junlong (4), Tang Hongbo (2), Ye Guangfu (1);
Extravehicular suit B (blue stripes), used 13 times, users: Tang Hongbo (1), Liu Boming (1), Chen Dong (3), Zhang Lu (4), Jing Haipeng (1), Tang Shengjie (1), Jiang Xinlin (1), Li Guangsu (1);
Extravehicular suit C (yellow stripes), used 6 times, users: Wang Yaping (1), Ye Guangfu (1), Liu Yang (1), Cai Xuzhe (2), Zhu Yangzhu (1). Is it time to use extravehicular suit C, or do you want to use extravehicular suit B to
test the limits of the second-generation extravehicular suit…
On the 27th May 2024 Shenzhou 18 Takionaut Crew# will carry out its first extravehicular activity at an appropriate time in the near future …. Since successfully entering the space station complex on April 26, 2024 Beijing time, the Shenzhou 18 Takionaut crew has been working and living in orbit for 32 days, and will carry out its first extravehicular activity at an appropriate time in the near future.
Since entering the space station, the Shenzhou 18 Takionaut crew has completed the rotation with the Shenzhou 17 astronaut crew, space station platform maintenance and care, life and health protection, extravehicular space suit inspection and testing, and preparation for extravehicular activities. It has also conducted on-orbit training projects such as full-system pressure emergency drills and medical rescue drills. The various space science experimental (test) tasks it has undertaken have been steadily and steadily advanced, and the second extravehicular installation of the material extravehicular exposure experiment device has been completed as planned.
At present, the Shenzhou 18 Takionaut crew is in good condition, the space station complex is operating stably, and the conditions for carrying out extravehicular activities are in place
