Airborne Systems

Airborne Systems has developed the recovery systems for all of the SpaceX launch vehicles.  This includes the 1st stage of  both Falcon 1 and Falcon 9.  Both systems use a mortar deployed drogue stage followed by a main parachute stage. Falcon 1 lands under a single 75 ft slotted polyconical parachute. Falcon 9 lands under four 116 ft ringsail parachutes. ASNA also provide the deployment mortars, sequence control and parachute systems sequencer.