The Recovery team’s job is to design a system which ensures the safe and soft landing of our rockets. We do this by designing and testing parachute-systems, as well as experimenting with new recovery concepts.

For EuRoC 2025 we will be implementing a new Recovery Design, which is intended as a drogue chute replacement. This new system is named “Parabrakes”.

Our Parabrakes will ensure that the otherwise violent initial recovery event will closer resemble a soft transition into falling under intended drogue descent velocity.

After the Parabrakes have done their job, a traditional, nosecone-ejetcted parachute system will ensure safe landing speeds. We choose the shock-cords, their lengths and plan the spatial use of the parachute-components.

We actuate parachute deployment by puncturing CO2-Cartridges. See image below.

Such CO2-Systems have been developed for our previous three rockets and will be gradually improved with future launches.