The Crew Exploration Vehicle Parachute Assembly System (CPAS) is engaged in a multi-year design and test campaign aimed at qualifying a parachute recovery system for human use on the Orion Spacecraft. Orion has parachute flight performance requirements that will ultimately be verified through the use of Monte Carlo multi-degree of freedom flight simulations. These simulations will be anchored by real world flight test data and iteratively improved to provide a closer approximation to the real physics observed in the inherently chaotic inflation and steady state flight of the CPAS parachutes. This paper will examine the processes necessary to verify the flight performance requirements of the human rated spacecraft. The focus will be on the requirements verification and model validation planned on CPAS.


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    Title :

    Verification and Validation Plan for Flight Performance Requirements on the CEV Parachute Assembly System


    Contributors:
    A. L. Morris (author) / L. M. Olson (author)

    Publication date :

    2011


    Size :

    11 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English