(Phys.org)—A team of researchers brought a pair of scale model space capsules to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to try out a rotor system that could be used in place of parachutes ...
Space Exploration
Oct 5, 2012
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(Phys.org) —The team designing the parachute system for NASA's Orion spacecraft has demonstrated almost every parachute failure they could imagine. But on April 23, they tested how the system would perform if the failure ...
Space Exploration
Apr 25, 2014
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Already running years behind, Boeing's first astronaut flight is now off until at least next March.
Space Exploration
Aug 7, 2023
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and industry engineers conducted a design limit load test of the Ares I rocket's main parachute Oct. 8 at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz. The Ares I is the first rocket in NASA's ...
Space Exploration
Oct 9, 2009
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A parachute system that's designed to land spacecraft on Mars will be tested this week off Virginia's coast.
Space Exploration
Sep 4, 2018
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After several weeks of bad weather and strong winds, the latest pair of high-altitude drop tests of the ExoMars parachutes took place in Kiruna, Sweden. The 15 m-wide first stage main parachute performed flawlessly at supersonic ...
Space Exploration
Jul 2, 2021
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Three weeks from Sunday night, an amiable, whip-smart engineer named Ray Baker will be staring into his computer screen at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, hopeful and helpless - or, as he puts it, "sweating blood."
Space Exploration
Jul 16, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Under a brilliant early morning Arizona sky, NASA conducted a successful, record-breaking test of a drogue parachute being designed to return next-generation space vehicles safely to Earth.
Space Exploration
Apr 16, 2010
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(Phys.org) —Photos from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show how the parachute that helped NASA's Curiosity rover land on Mars last summer has subsequently changed its shape on the ground.
Space Exploration
Apr 3, 2013
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Stony Brook University researchers are developing a computational platform to mimic the complex "Inflation Dynamics" behavior a parachute's canopy undergoes as it travels through an airflow to help improve designs.
General Physics
Apr 9, 2015
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