life-support system
noun
: an artificial or natural system that provides all or some of the items (such as oxygen, food, water, control of temperature and pressure, disposition of carbon dioxide and body wastes) necessary for maintaining life or health
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Meanwhile Axiom engineers developed the insulation, articulated joints, life-support systems, and more that make an extravehicular spacesuit a sort of form-fitting spacecraft.
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Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
An onboard life-support system will allow astronauts to survive in their suits for up to eight hours.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024
These life-support systems make Earth resilient and stable.
—Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
Their goal is to ensure the Orion capsule’s life-support systems work, setting up the Artemis III mission no earlier than September 2026.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 27 July 2024
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Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
An onboard life-support system will allow astronauts to survive in their suits for up to eight hours.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024
These life-support systems make Earth resilient and stable.
—Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
Their goal is to ensure the Orion capsule’s life-support systems work, setting up the Artemis III mission no earlier than September 2026.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 27 July 2024
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“Life-support system.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life-support%20system. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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