DEVICE FOR SAMPLING OF OUTER SURFACE OF SPACE OBJECT BY ASTRONAUT

摘要

FIELD: measurement equipment.SUBSTANCE: invention relates mostly to tools used by an astronaut in open space. The device comprises a body from a chemically, thermally, mechanically stable and ?-permeable material. In the body there is one or more dead threaded cavities with a conical surface at the inlet. A sampler with a responsive conical surface providing for sealing of the cavity during contact of both conical surfaces is screwed into the cavity. A metal plate is fixed to the body, the cut in which produces a handle to grip the body by an inflated glove of the astronaut's spacesuit. On the Earth the device in the assembled and sealed form is sterilised by ?-radiation. On the orbit the cosmonaut holding the body by the handle extracts the sampler from the cavity. After sampling and sealing of the sampler the device is returned to the Earth for analysis.EFFECT: ensuring sampling from the outer surface of space objects by an astronaut in a spacesuit and their isolation from the environment, including a medium of pressurised compartments of these objects.2 dwg