Design and testing of the Kistler Landing System parachutes

Taylor, Anthony P.; Sinclair, Robert; Allamby, Richard

doi:10.2514/6.1999-1707

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“…The parachute recovery method has experienced tremendous growth due to its advantages of the high reliability, low risk, and high technology maturity. Ever since 1980s, the parachute recovery of the RLV had many success cases, such as the Kistler Aerospace 1 company's K-1 carrier rocket recovery, 2 the recovery of the largescale Russian "energy" rocket, the recovery of the "Arian 5 00 booster, 3,4 and the recovery of the pilot launch of the "Ares I-X" launch vehicle in the United States. 5,6 However, despite of the above, the precision landing capability of the parachute recovery is very limited.…”

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Modeling and research of a multi-stage parachute system for the booster recovery

Xing

Feng

Chen

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G:

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With the development of the aerospace technology, reducing the cost of exploring space has become the target of most countries. The recovery of rocket boosters is regarded as one of the most effective solutions to this problem. A whole recovery scheme of the drag parachute and controllable parafoil for accurate landing is designed in this paper, in view of the high reliability and low cost of the parachute recovery system. The models of the parachute-payload in the deceleration stage and the parafoil-payload in the gliding stage are established. On the basis of the high-fidelity models, the motion characteristics of the whole recovery process are simulated considering the external disturbances and internal disturbances such as the turbulent wind and angle uncertainty. This work provides the parameter reference for the accurate recovery control of the booster.

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