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

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00:00What is an ultimate burst pressure? It's what the team loves to do. We take that subscale,

00:04we maximum pressurize it, and we make it explode, destroy it. All of this testing,

00:09all of this development, what we might deem bringing it to failure,

00:13is actually bringing it to success. We're failing to succeed.

00:30The whole idea of this plate is to create a rigid point and a soft structure that can be used to

00:40mount anything to, like a window or an airlock. What better window in this entire world than if

00:47you're up in space and you look down at Earth? This will be the first time that there's a soft

00:51goods inflatable habitat in space with a window because we want to make sure our product lines

00:57are robust and they're safe. How do we make them safe in space? We fail them on Earth.

01:03And then in space, they don't fail.