FlexCraft

FlexCraft is a proposed support craft for the NASA Deep Space Habitat (DSH). FlexCraft would be used by an individual astronaut for EVA or tele-operated activities.^[1] The hardware would connect directly to the DSH airlock and would share a common atmosphere as the parent ship to provide immediate access to space without pre-breathing by DSH CREW.

With a pressurized volume of 0.62 m³, the FlexCraft is meant for only one person with an “excursion time” of less than 8 hours. Its propellant would be gaseous nitrogen, and it would have a Delta-V of 21 m/s with a total gross mass projected at 452 kg.

An already-identified limitation is that that it cannot be used during solar particle events.

References

↑ Delving Deeper into NASA's DSH Configuration and Support Craft

Space stations and habitats

Active

International Space Station (ISS)

Defunct

Soviet Union and Russia	Salyut Salyut 1 DOS-2^† Salyut 2^{† ‡} Cosmos 557^† Salyut 3^‡ Salyut 4 Salyut 5^‡ Salyut 6 Salyut 7 Mir

United States	OPS 0855^° Skylab Genesis I^° and II^° (private, Bigelow Aerospace)

China	Tiangong Tiangong-1

Cancelled

ISS-incorporated

Developmental

China	Tiangong Tiangong-2 Tiangong-3 Chinese space station

Bigelow Aerospace	Bigelow Commercial Space Station

Excalibur Almaz	Almaz commercial

Russia	OPSEK LOS

Proposed

Notes: † Never inhabited due to launch or on-orbit failure, ‡ Part of the Almaz military program, ° Never inhabited, lacks docking mechanism.

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FlexCraft

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