Ares I-X On-board High Speed Main Parachute Footage

[furgee]

I am not airborne yet so i dont know much about parachutes but it looks to me like when the 2 remaining chutes flared, the one on the right may have had more air in it, hence making it tougher, and when it connected with the other it knocked air from the other and could not re-fill because it's aerodynamics had changed. What do you guys think?

[callmeshane303]

Why do they have to deploy 3 chutes, what is wrong with them?

Me thinks ONE big chute seems to be a whole heap less complicated.

[lurion]

@callmeshane303 Redundancy. The possibilities of all three chutes failing at the same time are very slim. If you just have one and it happens to fail then you're screwed. Also it's easier to distribute weight over three smaller chutes than one big one.

[Tubeglowfun]

I'm no expert, but that didn't seem to have gone well. One parachute didn't open at all. The second one failed later. The lines appear to be shreaded, and some snap completely. Could someone elaborate on what it is we are actually seeing? I'm not finding much info about it.

[ronhunt40]

You can see one of the shroud lines on the center, (lower) chute fail at 0:26

[exalotyle]

where is the third chute ?