Note to self: Parachutes self-destruct at Mach 2.5.
Looks like the chute slammed open fully and ripped apart. I'm surprised they didn't anticipate that and use the sliding cord dampers which allow partial/slow opening as used on other NASA spacecraft, like the Apollo command module IIRC.
Note to self: Parachutes self-destruct at Mach 2.5.
Looks like the chute slammed open fully and ripped apart. I'm surprised they didn't anticipate that and use the sliding cord dampers which allow partial/slow opening as used on other NASA spacecraft, like the Apollo command module IIRC.
Because NASA retired all Engineers of the Apollo Program and subsequently lost all data for Saturn and Apollo projects thru retiring the computers and not scanning in the blueprints or migrating the data to newer systems. They just lost all the acquired knowledge.
Okay, parachute ripped apart, payload weighed 7000 pounds. What do I do with that hole in my roof and all that new stuff in my living room? erco, before I put it on eBay, 'you interested?
Okay, parachute ripped apart, payload weighed 7000 pounds. What do I do with that hole in my roof and all that new stuff in my living room? erco, before I put it on eBay, 'you interested?
-Phil
Tell people it's a newer model Corvair or in your case, Pinto remains?
Note to self: Parachutes self-destruct at Mach 2.5.
Looks like the chute slammed open fully and ripped apart. I'm surprised they didn't anticipate that and use the sliding cord dampers which allow partial/slow opening as used on other NASA spacecraft, like the Apollo command module IIRC.
The Apollo drogue chutes deployed at subsonic speeds and the main chutes deployed at about the same speed as a Corvair can reach on a good day, downhill.
The testing seemed like it was all about duplicating the thin Martian atmosphere as best they could,
It is more about finding out, how much ripping can you get away with, and still have some drag left.
I don't think they have much chance of making a 'lite-weight' parachute not rip at Mach 3, even if the super sonic air bags do work to slow down the craft.
I should probably change my attitude, and just believe...
I have shredded many parachutes, by prematurely removing nose cones in flight because i didn't have the correct delay on the engines i was using.
I was always impressed by the damage done by premature nose cone jettisons. It's not like Estes didn't warn me about that kind of thing...:cool:
How are we ever supposed to boldly go where no man has gone before when we are still messing around with bits of string and fabric like some Columbus blundering about trying to discover the new world?
How does this sewing machine approach scale to finding a new home for the human race out there?
Ron Czapala
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Note to self: Parachutes self-destruct at Mach 2.5.
Looks like the chute slammed open fully and ripped apart. I'm surprised they didn't anticipate that and use the sliding cord dampers which allow partial/slow opening as used on other NASA spacecraft, like the Apollo command module IIRC.
Because NASA retired all Engineers of the Apollo Program and subsequently lost all data for Saturn and Apollo projects thru retiring the computers and not scanning in the blueprints or migrating the data to newer systems. They just lost all the acquired knowledge.
Sad but true.
Mike
-Phil
Put 'em on the freebie table at the next Expo.
Tell people it's a newer model Corvair or in your case, Pinto remains?
The Apollo drogue chutes deployed at subsonic speeds and the main chutes deployed at about the same speed as a Corvair can reach on a good day, downhill.
It is more about finding out, how much ripping can you get away with, and still have some drag left.
I don't think they have much chance of making a 'lite-weight' parachute not rip at Mach 3, even if the super sonic air bags do work to slow down the craft.
I should probably change my attitude, and just believe...
I have shredded many parachutes, by prematurely removing nose cones in flight because i didn't have the correct delay on the engines i was using.
I was always impressed by the damage done by premature nose cone jettisons. It's not like Estes didn't warn me about that kind of thing...:cool:
-Tommy
How does this sewing machine approach scale to finding a new home for the human race out there?
It was Jupiter's atmosphere that they used for aerobraking.
Thanks Rich, I sit corrected. That movie had a few good moments but I couldn't bring myself to sit thru it again just to check that one fact.