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OPENROCKET_PARACHUTE_DRAG_COEFFICIENT

Constant OPENROCKET_PARACHUTE_DRAG_COEFFICIENT 

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pub const OPENROCKET_PARACHUTE_DRAG_COEFFICIENT: f64 = 0.8;
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OpenRocket’s drag coefficient for a parachute whose <cd> is auto, on the canopy’s area π D²/4, D its diameter: the OpenRocket technical documentation v13.05, §4.2.5, citing S. F. Hoerner, Fluid-Dynamic Drag (1965), p. 13-23. OpenRocket 24.12 reads it back (validation/fixtures/ork/openrocket-events.json).