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LLECHRYD
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« on: July 24, 2007, 04:10:54 PM »

Got a problem with the mercury flight - Everything goes fine throughout the mission - including the Redstone mission until the splashdown - the main drogue deploys and ends up as a flat pancake on top of the mercury capsule during the descent - this then causes an eratic spinning touchdown - well in fact the capsule does not touch down but hovers in space above the surface!
Any help to rectify this gratefully accepted
Colin
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« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2007, 07:58:37 PM »

If the drouge ends up flat, wouldn't the main chute put the spacecraft right?

Also i think the capsule is suppost to do that for recovery.  Orbiter has a minor problem that ends up as a CTD if two vessels dock and one is landed.  So the capsule levitates awaiting the helicopter
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