Flagsuit Industries was founded to commercialize technology developed initially for the winning entry in the 2007 NASA Astronaut Space Suit Glove Competition. Based in coastal Maine, the company is focused on streamlining the production of custom elements for stratospheric, suborbital and planetary space suits. Our capabilities include the design, rapid development and manufacture of best in class articulating pressure suit garments.
In 2009, the company also developed the gloves and protective Thermal Micrometeroid Garments (TMGs) that won the second NASA Centennial Challenge. These gloves incorporated many second generation innovations that increasde hand dexterity while decreasing glove stiffnes (effort) by a factor of two over prior designs. Flagsuit’s winning gloves were more than twice as flexible as the NASA Phase VI glove in finger and wrist bending torque tests as shown below.
Full report: https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/674814
Expanding the range of applications for pressure-capable gloves, we are applying our flexible joint technology to the larger joints of a full-body pressure suit. Soft Shoulder concepts were built for the NASA CRAVE program in 2009, again achieving a two-fold increase in flexibility with greater comfort than comparable designs.
Flagsuit’s 2025 commercial full pressure suit (pressure garment assembly).
