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Ballute logo #10101) Balloon parachute baltimore
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Ballute

Ballute logo #21000 The ballute (a portmanteau combining `balloon` and `parachute`) was invented by Goodyear in 1958. It is a parachute braking device optimized for use at high altitudes and high supersonic velocities. The original ballute was a cone-shaped balloon with a toroidal burble fence fitted around its widest point. A burble fence is an inflated toroidal...
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Ballute

Ballute logo #22116An aerodynamic braking device which is both balloon and parachute.
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ballute logo #21160An inflatable balloon-parachute, made from a thin, flexible, inelastic membrane, that provides a means of aerobraking or aerocapture. Typically, ballutes are pumpkin-shaped and wrinkled in appearance with longitudinal seams. One option is to have the main spacecraft engine run at low idle thrust dur...
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BALLUTE

BALLUTE logo #20785Balloon Parachute (bomb retarder)Baltimore
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