A group of Italian companies has created the first spacesuit for analogue simulation fully designed and engineered in Italy for the Space Medicine Operations (SMOPS) Mars mission.

This project was promoted and organized by Mars Planet – the Italian chapter of the Mars Society headquartered in Bergamo, under the patronage of the Italian Space Agency, and uses skills acquired in the development of PPE during the pandemic.

From April 10 to 23, the spacesuits will be used in a series of experiments carried out at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA, that will simulate the life and work conditions mission crews will face on the Martian surface.