Spacecraft
降落伞
Parachute
Canopies used to slow a landing.
Shenzhou's main chute cuts speed to about 8 m/s.
Related terms
- Booster — Strap-on or parallel stages giving extra thrust at liftoff.
- Thrust — Force from an engine, given in kilonewtons or tonnes-force.
- Specific impulse — Impulse per unit of propellant — an efficiency measure.
- LEO capacity — How much mass a launcher can put in low Earth orbit.