But it doesn't seem like a big deal.
are looking into the issue, to make sure it's fully understood in advance of other crewed Dragon flights.
"This is a super chance for us to learn," Bill Gerstenmaier, vice president of build and flight reliability at SpaceX, said during Friday's telecon. Having two sets of such similar data is"almost a gift," he added, stressing that the investigation will boost engineers' understanding of Dragon's parachutes and end up making the system safer and more robust., will involve detailed analysis of imagery captured during the CRS-24 reentry, to see if anything anomalous occurred during chute deployment, Gerstenmaier said.
"This will be thoroughly investigated, very similar to what we did in a pretty expedited manner after Crew-2," Gerstenmaier said."We'll use this as another data point and see if we can actually get smarter about how these systems operate so we can make sure that, yes, this really is a nominal operation of this four-chute system."
That's the leading theory at the moment — that it's normal for one of the four chutes to take longer than the others to fully inflate. The lagger may commonly get"shadowed" by the other three, failing to open fully until Dragon gets lower in"We think this is just a feature of the way the four-chute design works," Gerstenmaier said.
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