Category: Parachutes/Landing

To ensure the highest chance of our CanSat not taking damage and having a smooth landing, we have opted for our CanSat to descend at a terminal speed of 8.0m/s. Our final parachute design will be a flat-pack hexagon design. We have chosen this design for a few reasons. Firstly, it is simple and relatively easy to…

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” Said Frank Zappa, an American musician and composer. As has been seen with the recent failed Japanese Hakuto-R moon landing mission in 2023, and early last month with NASA’s failed Peregrine mission, the landing objective is the hardest within a mission, and…