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providing pressurization, breathing gas, thermal control, and protection from debris and radiation.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the space suit as a configured wearable pressure-protection system, including its fitted components, protective capabilities, wearer compatibility, life-support dependencies and evidence of readiness.", "in_scope": [ "Suit identity, configuration and intended intravehicular, extravehicular or contingency role", "Pressure envelope, closures, seals and pressure-control provisions", "Integrated or connected breathing, ventilation and thermal-control provisions", "Wearer fit, mobility, visibility, communication and task interfaces", "Protective layers, mission-specific environmental limits and exposure history", "Inspection, servicing, consumables and use restrictions for the configured suit" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Spacecraft cabin atmosphere and vehicle-wide environmental control", "Wearer medical condition, qualifications and training records", "Mission 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"why_it_matters": "A serviceable suit may still be unsuitable for a particular wearer." }, { "name": "Pressurised task mobility", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Task-specific reach, joint range in degrees or actuation force in N, with test conditions", "why_it_matters": "Establishes whether required movements and controls remain usable under operating conditions." }, { "name": "Environmental qualification", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Configuration linked to documented exposure limits, test evidence and exclusions", "why_it_matters": "Prevents intended protection from being mistaken for demonstrated protection." }, { "name": "Operational readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed; awaiting checks; released for specified use; restricted; quarantined; retired", "why_it_matters": "Makes permitted actions depend on current evidence and the applicable release authority." } ], "affordances": [ "Match a configured suit to a wearer, mission role and documented operating environment.", "Identify required external services, compatible interfaces and missing components before use.", "Compare inspection and test evidence with configuration-specific acceptance criteria.", "Assess whether resource state and documented limits support a proposed activity and its required reserves.", "Identify authorised inspection, servicing or component-replacement procedures and subsequent verification requirements.", "Flag restrictions, quarantine conditions and matters requiring qualified human release." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "placeholder", "title": "pending research", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "will be filled after lookups" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "suit-role-and-configuration", "name": "Suit role and configuration", "description": "Identifies what assembly counts as this suit and which spaceflight roles its configuration supports.", "rationale": "Similar-looking suits and interchangeable-looking parts can have different 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"qualified-component-combination", "name": "Qualified component combination", "description": "Record installed components and the evidence that their combination supports the claimed role.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which helmet, gloves, pressure garment, protective layers and life-support components belong to this configured suit?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "qualified-component-combination-q01" }, { "text": "What compatibility evidence and repeat checks are required when one of these components is exchanged?", "kind": "action", "id": "qualified-component-combination-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "pressure-and-breathing-support", "name": "Pressure and breathing support", "description": "Captures the pressure envelope and provisions for maintaining a usable breathing environment.", "rationale": "Pressure retention and breathing support must be assessed together with their operating modes and dependencies.", "layers": [ { "id": "pressure-envelope", "name": "Pressure envelope", "description": "Covers the pressure-retaining assembly, seals, closures and pressure-control provisions.", "findings": [ { "id": "pressure-integrity-evidence", "name": "Pressure integrity evidence", "description": "Record applicable pressure limits and measured integrity of the current assembly.", "questions": [ { "text": "What operating and differential-pressure limits apply to this configuration and mode?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "pressure-integrity-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What do the latest applicable leakage and closure checks show against their documented acceptance criteria?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "pressure-integrity-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "breathing-loop-and-supply", "name": "Breathing loop and supply", "description": "Identifies gas supply, circulation, carbon-dioxide management and dependencies on external equipment.", "findings": [ { "id": "breathing-support-availability", "name": "Breathing support availability", "description": "Record how breathing support is provided in each mode and what evidence establishes its availability.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which breathing-support functions are carried by the suit, and which depend on a vehicle, umbilical or other connected system?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "breathing-support-availability-q01" }, { "text": "What measurements and resource estimates establish adequate breathing support for the proposed workload and duration?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "breathing-support-availability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "thermal-and-environmental-protection", "name": "Thermal and environmental protection", "description": "Relates thermal management and protective construction to the exposures expected in a particular use.", "rationale": "Protection depends on exposure conditions and configuration; the label 'space suit' does not establish universal environmental resistance.", "layers": [ { "id": "heat-and-moisture-management", "name": "Heat and moisture management", "description": "Covers removal or retention of heat and management of moisture within the worn suit.", "findings": [ { "id": "thermal-support-envelope", "name": "Thermal support envelope", "description": "Record thermal-control provisions, required services and demonstrated limits under relevant workloads.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which garments, circulation paths and heat-rejection provisions manage wearer heat and moisture in this configuration?", "kind": "definition", "id": "thermal-support-envelope-q01" }, { "text": "Under what workload, environmental and resource conditions has adequate thermal performance been established?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "thermal-support-envelope-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "exposure-specific-protection", "name": "Exposure-specific protection", "description": "Connects protective components to documented hazards, limits and degradation mechanisms.", "findings": [ { "id": "protective-coverage-and-limits", "name": "Protective coverage and limits", "description": "Record evidenced protection against relevant exposures without inferring capability from the presence of an outer layer.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which records establish protection and limits for relevant hazards such as abrasion, dust, impact, optical exposure or contact temperature?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "protective-coverage-and-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Which exposures exceed the suit's documented protection or require separate controls?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "protective-coverage-and-limits-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "wearer-fit-and-task-performance", "name": "Wearer fit and task performance", "description": "Establishes whether a particular wearer can occupy, operate and perform assigned activities in the suit.", "rationale": "Suit integrity alone does not establish usable fit, access to controls or task capability when pressurised.", "layers": [ { "id": "fit-and-body-interface", "name": "Fit and body interface", "description": "Covers sizing, adjustment, body contact and access for donning and removal.", "findings": [ { "id": "wearer-specific-fit", "name": "Wearer-specific fit", "description": "Record the fitted configuration and assessment of constraints affecting the named wearer.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sizing components and adjustments were assessed for this wearer, and under what pressurisation conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "wearer-specific-fit-q01" }, { "text": "What assistance, equipment and approved procedure are required to don and remove this configuration?", "kind": "action", "id": "wearer-specific-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pressurised-interaction", "name": "Pressurised interaction", "description": "Covers movement, dexterity, perception and communication during intended activities.", "findings": [ { "id": "task-access-and-control", "name": "Task access and control", "description": "Record evidence that the wearer can perform required movements and use relevant interfaces in operating 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"current-serviceability", "name": "Current serviceability", "description": "Record findings from inspection and servicing that affect pressure protection, life support or protective performance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What damage, contamination, seal degradation or accumulated use affects the installed components, and which acceptance criteria apply?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "current-serviceability-q01" }, { "text": "Which servicing actions and subsequent tests remain necessary before this assembly can be released for its intended use?", "kind": "action", "id": "current-serviceability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mission-readiness-and-contingencies", "name": "Mission readiness and contingencies", "description": "Relates operating resources, fault indications and recovery provisions to a specific planned activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-use-release", "name": "Bounded use release", "description": "Record the conditions of operational release and applicable responses when 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and materials", "description": "What a space suit is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a space suit, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a space suit, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a space suit is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, 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} ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a space suit is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a space suit is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a space suit, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a space suit, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a space suit is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a space suit is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a space suit, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit 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"claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a space suit is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a space suit is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a space suit, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a space 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