The parachute system helps to control where falling rocket boosters land on Earth, steering them away from populated areas.
a BeiDou navigation satellite to orbit, lifting off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province on May 17, China’s state media Xinhua reported.The news, which was delivered nearly a month after the test, doesn’t specify where the rocket booster landed.
boosters from 55 miles to 18 miles . The system uses a parachute and a gliding control system installed on the side boosters of China’s Long March 3B, 3C and 2F rockets.The rocket boosters don’t make it all the way to space, instead reaching an altitude of 31 miles above the surface, Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Gizmodo during an interview in March.
By bringing the boosters down gently, China also has a better chance of reusing them for future launches. “We’ll also make the landing area into a landing bed by adding cushion, making it soft as a mattress,” Teng Haishan, deputy chief engineer of the No. 508 Institute of China Academy of Space Technology , told CCTV in March. “As a result, the booster will be completely recyclable without any damage.”its Long March 5B rocket .
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