Airborne Systems

ASNA designed and delivered descent stage and deployment drogue parachutes in support of the Aurora Flight Sciences/NASA LaRC HADD2 balloon flight-test program. This system was based on the Beagle 2 baseline design that flew on the MGP program and will be eventually flown in a Mars relevant environment. The system was extremely demanding in terms of mass budget and required high-fidelity stress analysis to optimize weight and deliver an absolute minimum mass solution that met the extremes of the deployment conditions.