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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2019
Kitty Hawk Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Craig Western, San Francisco, CA (US);
Damon Vander Lind, Alameda, CA (US);
Eric Miller, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
James Thomas Yaru, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Timothy Mattson, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew David Goessling, Fremont, CA (US);
Kitty Hawk Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A selection is made between single stage and multistage parachute deployment for a vehicle based at least in part on vehicle state information. In the event multistage parachute deployment is selected, a drogue parachute is deployed during a first deployment stage and afterwards, a main parachute is deployed during a second deployment stage. In the event single stage parachute deployment is selected, at least the main parachute is deployed in a single stage where in the event the drogue parachute is deployed during the single stage, the drogue and main parachute are deployed simultaneously.