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ballute

[′ba‚lüt]

(aerospace engineering)

A cross between a balloon and a parachute, used to brake the free fall of sounding rockets.

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Braun, "Survey of ballute technology for aerocapture," Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, vol.

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Ballute, James Bullock, Heather Marie DeCarlo, Ethan D.

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The II and III are liquid-fueled devices; a ballute (which also serves as a torroidal float) slows the decent of the device, which ignites once it hits the water, emitting an 80-ft flame for approximately 45 seconds.

Cooling off the heat seekers

An explicit nonlinear finite element code, DYNA3D, has been performed for wrinkling phenomena of a modeled ballute system [10].

Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Wrinkling Pattern for Aerospace Laminated Membrane Structures

In some of the designs, the inflatable shell would trail the payload as a 'ballute', a mixture between a balloon and a parachute.

Inflatable shells could ensure safe landings for spacecrafts on Mars

The Secc could be launched from a submarine's Trident tubes or dropped from an aircraft and slowed by a ballute and parachute prior to aerofoil-extension.