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- Title
Verifying the ILR-33 AMBER Rocket Recovery System by Means of a Drop Test Campaign.
- Authors
Marciniak, Błażej A.; Cieśliński, Dawid; Matyszewski, Jan
- Abstract
This paper presents the evaluation process of a Recovery System developed for the ILR-33 AMBER suborbital rocket, designed for small payloads and capable of launching 10 kg to altitudes up to 100 km. The Recovery System allows for retrieval of the payload by means of highangle-of-attack motion with flat spin and a two-stage parachute system. After presenting the design of the Recovery System, this study focuses mainly on a subsonic drop test campaign that allowed the system to be qualified for the first version of the AMBER rocket vehicle. Analytical and numerical methods for the recovery phase development are presented and compared with the experimental results obtained from the drop tests. Overall, the drop tests proved to be indispensable for the successful development of the AMBER rocket platform, by providing essential load and spin data to feed back into the re-design processes, and also by confirming the viability of the concept of three-stage parachute recovery.
- Subjects
ALTITUDES; PARACHUTING
- Publication
International Review of Aerospace Engineering, 2023, Vol 16, Issue 1, p9
- ISSN
1973-7459
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15866/irease.v16i1.22619