The recovery team has designed a CO2 ejector that provides a pressure source capable of deploying the recovery bays of our vehicles. It makes use of commercially available compressed CO2 canisters as a less energetic alternative to black powder charges, commonly used for rocket recovery.
The design was validated in Lince’s flight at EuRoC23’, where, despite flying in tandem with a conventional BP charge for redundancy, it successfully triggered the first recovery event. A more sturdy and powerful design revision was developed for use in Pícaro at EuRoC24’, this being our first rocket to deploy using only CO2 ejection.
