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Rocket-Powered Parachutes Rescue Entire PlanesSmall Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts with Langley Research Center helped BRS Aerospace, of Saint Paul, Minnesota, to develop technology that has saved 246 lives to date. The company s whole aircraft parachute systems deploy in less than 1 second thanks to solid rocket motors and are capable of arresting the descent of a small aircraft, lowering it safely to the ground. BRS has sold more than 30,000 systems worldwide, and the technology is now standard equipment on many of the world s top-selling aircraft. Parachutes for larger airplanes are in the works.
Document ID
20110000729
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Other
Date Acquired
August 25, 2013
Publication Date
December 1, 2010
Publication Information
Publication: Spinoff 2010
Subject Category
Man/System Technology And Life Support
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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