Integration of the Large Envelope Advanced Parachute System in Stratos IV

The Large Envelope Advanced Parachute System (LEAPS) is developed as a means of recovering the flight data to prove that a student-built sounding rocket, Stratos IV, has reached space. Several design modifications are outlined in this work. The drogue parachute is deployed using a hot gas deployment system to save mass and volume and to increase reliability. The main parachute has been changed to a Disk-Gap-Band parachute as it is better testable in the Open Jet Facility, a subsonic wind tunnel of Delft University of Technology. A heat shield is included to protect the parachute system during atmospheric re-entry. The key benefit of this work is creating a reliable and supersonic parachute recovery system for the safe recovery of flight data located in the sounding rocket's nose cone.