Today my group got all the things together and we organized all of the things. After we did that we started to get all of our materials and started crafting the lander. That took us atleast half the class, after we did that we did some finishing touches to our test model and checked it if it is stable.
When we tried our lander, unfortunatly the parachute made the whole thing collapse when we dropped it. Luckily nothin severely broke, good thing we know why our lander flipped in the middle of the air, and why he parachute did open up normally. Form that data we now know what to improve and what to make it more stabilized.
Air Resistance
Air Resistance is basically things that make the Air go through a certain point of something. Like for example if I have a ball, it will have less air resistance than if I have a ball in a box. The ball will go faster because it has less air resistance than the other desgin. You can make the air resistance higher by changing the shape of the object with other materials. That why parachute is a really good example for air resistance.
If we did our lander from all kind of heights, some heights won't work and some will, because according to our latest trial, ours broke from a quite short distance. If we do it from a high place the parachute has more time to pop up and do its job, that's why in our case, our will pop up at a time that is not to slow and not to fast. After we fox the parachute and make it more balanced. In conclusion, I think the slowest height won't have a really good result, but a higher height will.
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