SPADS: design and in-flight demonstration of a precision landing parafoil system
- Paper number
IAC-22,D2,6,3,x72096
- Author
Mr. Jorge Cardín, Spain, SENER
- Coauthor
Mr. Héctor Gutiérrez Li, Spain, SENER
- Coauthor
Mr. Guillermo Rodríguez, Spain, SENER
- Coauthor
Mr. Antonio Figueroa, Spain, SENER
- Coauthor
Mr. Santiago De la Riva, Spain, SENER
- Coauthor
Mr. Francesco Cacciatore, Spain, SENER
- Year
2022
- Abstract
SENER Precision Aerial Delivery System (SPADS) is a parafoil system devoted to the pinpoint and soft landing of payloads in the range of 40 to 6000kg, based on the heritage of Space Rider Parafoil Guidance Navigation and Control subsystem (PGNC). Funded by the Technology Transfer Demonstrator program of the European Space Agency, a small prototype of 25kg of maximum take-off weight has been built and tested in flight with the aim of rising the PGNC TRL up to 7 and demonstrating the SPADS landing performances for the target applications, which include space recovery, airdrop delivery, rescue in flight of light aircraft and emergency landing system of urban air mobility aircraft. The SPADS Demonstrator vehicle design, flight tests and post-flight analysis will be shown in this paper
- Abstract document
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