A study on the public's exposure to risk caused by an object or payload landing upon its arrival from an orbital or suborbital flight trajectory. An investigation was conducted looking for research that may have been done or information that may have been gathered that is able to qualitatively or quantitatively discuss the magnitude of risk, or differential (delta) due to the presence of a parachute, to people or property on the ground in comparison to the risks of an object descending in free fall; essentially ballistically. The basic question the study seeks to answer is: 'Why is it safe to release an object on a parachute while it is unsafe to release it without a parachute.'


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    Title :

    Report on the Effects of Parachutes on Risk Mitigation to Third-party Property and Individuals


    Contributors:
    A. K. Mears (author)

    Publication date :

    1993


    Size :

    10 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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