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b2 Rocketry currently prototyping new products |
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1998 Archived News by b2 Rocketry
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Wednesday, November 18, 1998 |
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SAVANNAH, Georgia, USA -- b2 Rocketry continues to experience good success with their line of recovery products. NASA selected one of b2's 52" SkyAngle™ parachutes for the recovery of the Leonid Shower camera payload that was sent beyond 100,000 feet on a weather balloon on November 17, 1998.
The descent took over 34 minutes and the payload package was being recovered, intact, somewhere in Georgia as of the date of this report. For more information, contact Fred Barry of the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama.
The b2 Rocketry Company is also working on larger chutes for flyers of rockets in the 20 to 50+ pound range. They currently are prototyping three sizes in this class, each of which will feature four shroudlines of 9/16" tubular nylon sewn in a continious loop around the canopy. This material is rated at 1,500 psi tensile strength. In addition, a stronger swivel is incorporated into the design which also specs a tensile strength of 1,500 pounds.
Flyers were introduced to the largest of this design at the recent Orangeburg launch, built for Palmer Hudson's level 3 certification attempt. It measures 240" from tip-to-tip and can easily handle 50+ pounds of recovered weight. They expect to be in production early next year and will announce pricing at that time. Like all products in the SkyAngle™ line, you can expect a premium product at a value pricepoint! |
