Amazing Views As Sierra Space Bursts Inflatable LIFE Habitat Fitted With 'Window'
Sierra Space tested an inflatable habitat prototype fitted with a metallic window sub-structure.
Credit: Sierra Space
Credit: Sierra Space
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00:00 What is an ultimate burst pressure? It's what the team loves to do. We take that subscale,
00:04 we maximum pressurize it, and we make it explode, destroy it. All of this testing, all of this development,
00:10 what we might deem bringing it to failure, is actually bringing it to success.
00:14 We're failing to succeed.
00:17 [Bursting sound]
00:32 The whole idea of this plate is to create a
00:36 rigid point in a soft structure that can be used to mount
00:41 anything to, like a window or an airlock. What better window in this entire world than if you're up in space and you look down at
00:48 Earth? This would be the first time that there's a soft goods inflatable habitat in space with a window.
00:54 Because we want to make sure our product lines are robust and they're safe.
00:58 How do we make them safe in space? We fail them on Earth. And then in space, they don't fail.
01:04 [Bursting sound]
01:06 [Cheering]