A printed Starsuit glove held up against the sky

Unblocking human spaceflight

An astronaut on a spacewalk in a gas-pressurized suit

Space has changed, suits have not

The space landscape has changed drastically over the last 20 years. Current spacesuits can't keep up and are plagued with issues, including poor mobility, long don-doff times, and frequent injuries to fingers and joints. Most of these problems stem from the gas-bladder architecture used by all industry suits, which is known to be flawed but considered too difficult to replace.

A NASA Space Activity Suit prototype from the 1960s

The MCP Paradigm

The only viable alternative to a gas-bladder suit architecture is mechanical counterpressure, which applies pressure directly to the skin with fabric. MCP spacesuits were explored by Paul Webb and NASA in the 60s, but abandoned due to issues finding textiles that could satisfy the suit's material requirements. 60 years later, we built a fabric that can.

A suit you can work with

Our suit uses MCP to fix the issues inherent to the gas-bladder architecture, and provides unprecedented benefits. We solved the bottleneck and built a spacesuit that will actually let humans expand into the solar system and do work in space.

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