Free-flight investigation of the deployment of a parawing recovery device for a radio-controlled 1/5-scale dynamic model spacecraft /
by Charles E. Libbey.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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Washington, D.C. : NASA, 1963.
- Summary
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A free-flight investigation of a redio-controlled model of a manned reentry spacecraft with a telescoping rigid parawing as a recovery system was made to evaluate the deployment process and the stability and control characteristics of the configuration. Flight tests showed that the parawing could be deployed from a packaged condition, but that the deployment process must be a sequence of carefully controlled and timed events, and that some portions of the deployment should not occur at too fast a rate. The most significant single factor learned about the deployment process was that the parawing had to be slowly rotated to a lifting condition. Transition which is too fast from zero lift to maximum lift would result in a tumbling motion. After the parawing was deployed, the configuration was stable and controllable.
- Note
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"Langley Research Center Langley Station, Hampton, Va."
"December 1963"--Cover.
"NASA Technical NOTE NASA TN D-2044"--Cover.
This work is part of the library's "Parachute History Collection", donated by the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. Institut für Flugsystemtechnik, through the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerodynamic Deceleration Systems Technical Committee.
- Physical Description
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21, [1] p. :
ill. ;
27 cm.
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