Collins Aerospace xEVAS suit (ISS replacement)

Project facts

Prime contractor

Collins Aerospace (RTX)

Competing contractors

Axiom Space

Award date

2022-12-07

First-use target

ISS deployment (suit demos by 2026); lunar use TBD

Contract value

$97.2M (task order)as of 2022-12-07^[1]First task order under xEVAS; later received crossover task order July 2023 for moonsuit work

Overview

Collins Aerospace team with ILC Dover and Oceaneering. Originally focused on ISS-replacement EMU. Received a crossover task order in July 2023 for lunar surface use. Critical-design-review-driven Earth-based simulated space environment demo.

Related spacesuit / eva projects

• AxEMU (Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit)Axiom Space