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Why do New Shepard's drogue chutes just "hang there" for ten seconds before deploying the main parachutes? What happens during that time?
The cropped and sharpened screenshots below are from the Blue Origin video Replay: New Shepard Mission NS-19 Webcast after about 02:03:16 (T+08:07) and show a ...
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Why does the Soyuz spacecraft's parachute have so many lines?
Image shows a myriad of lines holding down the parachute. I can't even count them all. Is this really necessary?
All those strings must surely add a lot of weight to the Soyuz TMA. I would think that ...
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