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Video Of Orion Drop Test - Failure

Nycbjr From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 447 posts, RR: 0
Posted (4 years 9 months 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 4977 times:

didn't see anything posted on this, looks like the parachute system needs some more attention!

any one hear more about this?

http://link.brightcove.com/services/...nk/bcpid1513658585/bctid1745075221

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Dragon6172 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 1161 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (4 years 9 months 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 4866 times:

http://www.space.com/news/080821-orion-parachute-test.html

That should explain it for ya. Seems that the failure was in the parachutes that are part of the test rig, not the actual Orion parachutes. In other words, one of the chutes that was supposed to help the ship get out and away from the drop aircraft, and then oriented in the right direction, failed.

Phrogs Phorever

Nycbjr From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 447 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (4 years 9 months 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 4825 times:

thanks that makes sense now!

Keesje From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (4 years 9 months 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 4807 times:

How many chutes failed? None of them seems to fully deploy.

Thorny From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (4 years 9 months 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 4805 times:

Quoting Keesje (Reply 3):
How many chutes failed? None of them seems to fully deploy.

I think the Orion's chutes never got the chance to work, because the test rig was improperly set up.

UnattendedBag From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 2243 posts, RR: 1
Reply 5, posted (4 years 9 months 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 4743 times:

Quoting Thorny (Reply 4):
I think the Orion's chutes never got the chance to work,

maybe a 5th parachute would have worked...

Slower traffic, keep right

Venus6971 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 1410 posts, RR: 1
Reply 6, posted (4 years 9 months 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 4741 times:

Sir Issac Newton was correct,
Gravity not just a good idea its the law dammit.

I would help you but it is not in the contract

Dragon6172 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 1161 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (4 years 9 months 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 4609 times:

Quoting Keesje (Reply 3):
How many chutes failed? None of them seems to fully deploy.

According to the article, it was one of ten parachutes that failed. I think what they mean is one of the first test chutes failed which caused all of the other chutes to fail, because obviously none of them fully opened. I guess they can not classify the other chutes as failures because they were opened outside of normal parameters.

Phrogs Phorever

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