Parafoil, developed by Space Recovery Research Center is fabric airfoil that maintains its shape by ram air pressure, is self-inflating, extremely light, and has shown life-to-drag ratios exceeding 3; tethered Parafoil demonstrated its ability to carry aloft cloud-seeding silver iodide flare; untethered Parafoil demonstrated gliding flight with small payload; characteristics, flight behavior, and size range.


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    Title :

    Parafoil shows potential for spacecraft recovery


    Additional title:

    Missiles Rockets


    Contributors:
    Pay, R. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1965


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :





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