Testing!
Hello again, Diyar from mechanical here!
It's time for another update on everybodys favorite experiment and it's recovery system, right? No? Alright, that's fine, it's still my favorite.
As the experiment advances on objectives change and as a result we in team BESPIN need to adapt and make sure that our experiment is still functional. The main focus of team mechanical is currently finishing the design and all the drawings, but I am not working on that. I have been working on the test plan for our main parachute, which basically means that I need to plan the step-by-step procedure and write how the test will be executed.
You see, we're going to test the parachute at Kiruna Airport runway and the reason for that is to make sure our parachute withstands deployment at the velocity it is suppose to open at during the fall of our probe. By doing this, we can also observe how the parachute deploys when packed differently. What kind of packing yields the smoothest parachute deployment? What kind of inflation times do we get? These questions are very important in order to find opening shock forces, which we have to take into consideration when designing our experiment.
Of course, you could be wondering why we dont use a windtunnel to do all these tests, and the answer to that is simple; it's far too expensive to be worthwhile. Eitherway, testing on a runway is going to be plenty fun.
For now that's all from me, but I'll be back.
