Design Guide For Parachute Systems
The design of parachute systems is not an easy task. There are many challenges involved and one does not have a second chance. When the rocket goes up, it has to work. The following steps are here to help anyone designing and building a parachute system. The parachute design guide found on this website is tailored toward university-level rocket projects. A design guide more tailored towards missions such as CanSat can be downloaded from our reader page.
The design guide consists of the following steps:
- Requirements on the parachute system
- Determining the flight path
- Parachute design
- Parachute deployment
- Landing system
- Retrieval system
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B. Engineering rules for an EDL engineer
C. Introduction to Systems Engineering
