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The March 2020 parachute is a test after NASA broke the record for the fastest inflation in the history of a parachute of this size in early September.
The third ASPIRE trial took place in the early hours of September 7, when the 180-kilogram parachute announced that it had become a solid cylinder allowing it to inflate completely in four tenths of a second. The maximum load of the nylon, Technora and Kevlar parachute reached nearly 70,000 pounds of force during the test.
In this image, the second stage of the Black Brant IX rocket separates from the ASPIRE payload. The third and final flight test of the ASPIRE payload was launched on September 7, 2018 from NASA's Wallops flight installation.
(Credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech)NASA / JPL-Caltech
NASA has launched a 58 foot Black Brant IX rocket probe for Mach 1.8 in order to fully test the chute, which will be an integral part of the landing of the latest aircraft Mars 2020 on the planet in February 2021. It is important for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to implement the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment (ASPIRE) project to evaluate options.
ASPIRE began with an exact replica of the parachute that managed to land Curiosity on the red planet in 2012, and then reinforced it with stronger materials and seams. After the third test in September, the team determined that the chute was ready after the meetings held earlier this month.
"March 2020 will carry the heavier payload to the surface of Mars now, like all our previous missions on Mars, we have only one parachute and it has to work," he said. John McNamee, Project Manager March 2020 at JPL, said in a statement. declaration.
"The ASPIRE tests have shown with remarkable accuracy the reaction of our parachute when it will be deployed for the first time in a supersonic flow over Mars – and let me tell you that it is beautiful. "
The tests actually carried the parachute to heights unmatched by the team during its mission on Mars. The 67,000-pound load was the highest ever survived with a supersonic parachute and nearly 85% more than the load expected when deployed on Mars.
"The Earth's atmosphere near the surface is much denser than the one near the Martian surface, about 100 times more," said Ian Clark, Technical Test Manager at JPL. "But in the heights – about 23 miles – the atmospheric density on Earth is very similar to that of six miles above Mars, which corresponds to the altitude at which Mars 2020 will deploy its parachute."
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The March 2020 parachute is a test after NASA broke the record for the fastest inflation in the history of a parachute of this size in early September.
The third ASPIRE trial took place in the early hours of September 7, when the 180-kilogram parachute announced that it had become a solid cylinder allowing it to inflate completely in four tenths of a second. The maximum load of the nylon, Technora and Kevlar parachute reached nearly 70,000 pounds of force during the test.
In this image, the second stage of the Black Brant IX rocket separates from the ASPIRE payload. The third and final flight test of the ASPIRE payload was launched on September 7, 2018 from NASA's Wallops flight installation.
(Credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech)NASA / JPL-Caltech
NASA has launched a 58 foot Black Brant IX rocket probe for Mach 1.8 in order to fully test the chute, which will be an integral part of the landing of the latest aircraft Mars 2020 on the planet in February 2021. It is important for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to implement the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment (ASPIRE) project to evaluate options.
ASPIRE began with an exact replica of the parachute that managed to land Curiosity on the red planet in 2012, and then reinforced it with stronger materials and seams. After the third test in September, the team determined that the chute was ready after the meetings held earlier this month.
"March 2020 will carry the heavier payload to the surface of Mars now, like all our previous missions on Mars, we have only one parachute and it has to work," he said. John McNamee, Project Manager March 2020 at JPL, said in a statement. declaration.
"The ASPIRE tests have shown with remarkable accuracy the reaction of our parachute when it will be deployed for the first time in a supersonic flow over Mars – and let me tell you that it is beautiful. "
The tests actually carried the parachute to heights unmatched by the team during its mission on Mars. The 67,000-pound load was the highest ever survived with a supersonic parachute and nearly 85% more than the load expected when deployed on Mars.
"The Earth's atmosphere near the surface is much denser than the one near the Martian surface, about 100 times more," said Ian Clark, Technical Test Manager at JPL. "But in the heights – about 23 miles – the atmospheric density on Earth is very similar to that of six miles above Mars, which corresponds to the altitude at which Mars 2020 will deploy its parachute."
