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Pilot Chutes and Mortars
ncc1701d
post Dec 21 2007, 07:51 PM
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The large Pioneer Multiprob deployed parachute so it could descend to surface of venus.

I am trying to understand the whole mortor and parachute system.
For those of you parachute experts.

When a mortor fires to pull out a pilot chute. What happens to the mortor after its fired?
I am guessing the mortor has a rope tail that it pulls out of the chute. Then the rope has a pilot parachute attached to it.
And then what..the mortor just files off leaving rope still attached to the pilot prachut or it takes the rope tail with it?
I have tough time finding info about the details of a mortor pilot chute relationship.
I am not even sure if the mortor really does have a rope tail connecting to pilot chute.
Also what does the mortar look like.

Is this same method used for the Hyguns and Galileo probes?
Thanks for any help.
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- ncc1701d   Pilot Chutes and Mortars   Dec 21 2007, 07:51 PM
- - djellison   A mortar isn't an object in itself that would ...   Dec 21 2007, 09:46 PM
|- - rlorenz   QUOTE (djellison @ Dec 21 2007, 04:46 PM)...   Dec 22 2007, 02:50 PM
- - rlorenz   QUOTE (ncc1701d @ Dec 21 2007, 02:51 PM) ...   Dec 22 2007, 02:46 PM
- - nprev   Huh. So you're saying that 9 vehicle diameters...   Dec 22 2007, 03:13 PM
|- - rlorenz   QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 22 2007, 10:13 AM) Huh...   Dec 22 2007, 06:08 PM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (rlorenz @ Dec 22 2007, 10:08 AM) ...   Dec 22 2007, 06:36 PM
|- - rlorenz   QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 22 2007, 01:36 PM) Act...   Dec 22 2007, 11:51 PM
- - djellison   Not clear of any turbulence, just the bit of it th...   Dec 22 2007, 03:48 PM

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