Six-parachute cluster in K-1 test

1998-07-08T00:00:00

Kistler Aerospace has completed a successful simulation of a landing by the reusable first stage of the K-1 satellite launcher, using a six-parachute cluster. The company described it as "one of the largest canopy deployments in the world". An instrumented payload was dropped from an aircraft at an altitude of ...

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