The primary purpose of the precision guided parafoil system is to enable delivery of large high-altitude payloads to pre-defined locations for easier recovery. Based on this mission there are a number of potential NASA applications for our proposed solution: - Sounding Rocket Recovery - The precision guided parafoil system can be used for NASA sounding rocket missions as a means to lower costs and reduce resources necessary to carry out sounding rocket water recovery efforts - Suborbital and/or Orbital rocket recovery - enable precision landing of suborbital and/or orbital rockets - International Space Station - enable precision landing of payloads released from the International Space Station - High-Altitude Balloons - enable precision landing of payloads released from high altitude balloons - Aircraft - enable precision landing of payloads released from aircraft.
There are a number of potential non-NASA commercial applications for the precision guided Parafoil system: - Commercial Space - Ventures utilizing re-entry vehicles can use this technology to recover their capsules - High-altitude Ballooning - With the recent considerable interest in high altitude ballooning for edge-of-space and ballistic rocket planes for suborbital tourism, our system could be used for the recovery of these systems - Emergency Response Applications - Precision guided systems can be attractive to emergency responders that require delivery of food, equipment and supplies to difficult to reach locations - Industrial Applications - This technology can be beneficial to any industry requiring high-altitude precision recovery and/or delivery of payloads to pre-defined locations - Military Applications – Potential military applications for this technology would benefit any high-altitude precision recovery and/or delivery of payloads similar to sounding rockets that need to be delivered to pre-defined locations - Airborne Delivery System (ADS) for Terrestrial Return Vehicle (TRV) – enable precision landing of the Terrestrial Return Vehicle (TRV) that will enable on demand, rapid return of experiments from the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory.
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