The Crew Exploration Vehicle Parachute Assembly System (CPAS) project is engaged in a multi-year design and test campaign to qualify a parachute recovery system for human use on the Orion Spacecraft. Test and simulation techniques have evolved concurrently to keep up with the demands of a challenging and complex system. The primary simulations used for preflight predictions and post-test data reconstructions are Decelerator System Simulation (DSS), Decelerator System Simulation Application (DSSA), and Drop Test Vehicle Simulation (DTV-SIM). The goal of this paper is to provide a roadmap to future programs on the test technique challenges and obstacles involved in executing a large-scale, multi-year parachute test program. A focus on flight simulation modeling and correlation to test techniques executed to obtain parachute performance parameters are presented.
Simulating New Drop Test Vehicles and Test Techniques for the Orion CEV Parachute Assembly System
2011
18 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Simulating New Drop Test Vehicles and Test Techniques for the Orion CEV Parachute Assembly System
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2011
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