New spacesuit is 'Dune'-inspired and could recycle urine into water
WEBJul 15, 2024 · A team of researchers has designed a spacesuit that would collect urine and filter it into drinkable water – inspired by the "stillsuits" of the science fiction franchise "Dune.
A Dune-inspired spacesuit turns astronaut pee into drinking water
WEBJul 12, 2024 · In the science-fiction series Dune, the desert-dwelling Fremen of the arid planet Arrakis recycle their body’s moisture using specially designed outfits called stillsuits.
Real-life 'stillsuit': Dune-inspired upgrade for spacesuits allow ...
WEBJul 12, 2024 · Real-life 'stillsuit': Dune-inspired upgrade for spacesuits allow astronauts to recycle urine into water. by Frontiers. Side view of the whole system, worn as a backpack. Credit: Karen...
Scientists unveil prototype spacesuit system that recycles urine as ...
WEBJul 12, 2024 · Researchers at Cornell University have designed a novel in-suit urine collection and filtration system, or “Dune” system,” to “promote astronaut wellbeing.”
Spacesuit Prototype Turns Pee Into Drinking Water
WEBJul 15, 2024 · The system is inspired by the stillsuits worn by people in the deserts of Arrakis in the science fiction epic Dune, Sofia Etlin, first author of the study and an astrobiologist at Cornell ...
Astronauts Can Drink Their Pee While In This Dune-Inspired Spacesuit
WEBJul 13, 2024 · Cue a new design for full-body “stillsuits,” inspired by the Dune movies. The movies feature spacesuits that absorb water lost through sweating and urination and purify it for drinking.
WEBIts total size is 38 by 23 by 23 cm, with a weight of approximately eight kilograms: sufficiently compact and light to be carried on the back of a spacesuit. Now that the prototype is...
Real-life ‘stillsuit’: Dune-inspired upgrade for spacesuits allow ...
WEBJul 12, 2024 · Real-life ‘stillsuit’: Dune-inspired upgrade for spacesuits allow astronauts to recycle urine into water. Credit: Warner Bros Pictures and Legendary Pictures. Astronauts on spacewalks famously have to relieve themselves inside their spacesuits.
Scientists built real-life “stillsuit” to recycle astronaut urine on ...
WEBJul 12, 2024 · The Fremen who inhabit the harsh desert world of Arrakis in Frank Herbert's Dune must rely on full-body "stillsuits" for their survival, which recycle absorbed sweat and urine into potable water.
The Morning After: Dune-inspired spacesuit recycles ... - Engadget
WEBJul 15, 2024 · A new space suit designed by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell University, inspired by Frank Herbert’s Dune, could make spacewalks longer and less disgusting by recycling...
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