The Recovery team’s job is to design a system which ensures the safe and soft landing of our rockets. We do this by designing and testing parachute-systems, as well as experimenting with new recovery concepts.
For EuRoC 2025 we will be implementing a new Recovery Design, which is intended as an airbrake for altitude precision and as a drogue chute replacement. This new system is named “Parabrakes”.
Our Parabrakes will ensure that we hit our target altitude of 3000 meters with precision and softly transition into falling under intended drogue descent velocity.
After the parabrakes have done their job, a traditional parachute system will ensure safe landing speeds. We choose the shock-cords, their lengths and plan the spatial use of the parachute-components.
We actuate parachute deployment by puncturing CO2-Cartridges. See image below.
Such CO2-Systems have been developed for our previous three rockets and will be gradually improved with future launches.
Join our team if you like landing rockets safely.
