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What Do You Get When You Cross IRVE With a Shuttle-Era P/A Module?

ULA’s Vulcan recovery concept:

ULA CEO Outlines BE-4 Engine Reuse Economic Case

It amounts to severing the engines from the stage, post-separation, and bringing them down via IRVE-derived inflatable heatshields.

An interesting method, but AvWeek’s description makes it sound a bit crude compared to going all the way to a single P/A-module-like unit. It may […]

April 16th, 2015 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Economics, Rocket Science, Science & Engineering, Space Commerce | Comments are closed

Supersonic Decelerator Test

NASA Is About to Test a Mega-Parachute at the Edge of Space

The system in question is a combination of a large parachute (Supersonic Disk Sail Parachute) and the smaller of two inflatable decelerator designs (the 6m Supersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator for robotic missions, or SIAD-R). (More here [pdf])

I’ve seen images of the larger […]

June 4th, 2014 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Science & Engineering, Useful Technology | Comments are closed