Rocket Shuttles

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   .schtieF

   Apr 6, 2009 at 9:05 am

   how does this work? are the shuttles deployed after apogee?

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   jurvetson

   Apr 6, 2009 at 3:56 pm

   Yes. As the nose cone pops, they are released. We have a similar mechanism in a scissor-wing rocket, where the nose slides up, but not away, releasing a wing to flip from vertical (in-line) to horizontal, and the tail fin to raise it’s flaps (no parachute in that case, just a mid-air rocket-to-glider transformer)

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