The Orion Program has concluded its drop test series for the spacecraft’s parachute system, with a successful return to terra firma on Wednesday. The three chutes will allow Orion to conclude its mission with a gentle splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Ensuring the system was safe, including during the loss of a chute, has been the main goal of the test series that has been ongoing for around a decade.
The Orion Program has successfully conducted another parachute drop test over the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving…
NASA’s Human Architecture Team (HAT) has opted to remove supersonic parachutes as an option for landing…
SpaceX’s Commercial Crew contender, the Dragon V2, will initially return to terra firma under parachutes,…
As the launch date for Exploration Flight Test -1 (EFT-1) closes in, the Orion team…
NASA confirmed on Friday that SpaceX’s Commercial Crew Dragon program successfully conducted a parachute test…
NASA’s Orion spacecraft successfully achieved a contingency landing scenario on Wednesday, returning under just two…
Following on from their successful drop test of the Orion Parachute Test Vehicle (PTV) in…
The Orion Program is continuing to push forward at a lively pace, as the first…
Orion teams are in the final stages of preparing for the first Generation II Parachute…
Pad workers have begun to evaluate what is being described as substantial heat damage to…
As part of the on going effort within the Constellation Program to finalize the design…
Atlantis, now undergoing post-flight deservicing inside OPF-1 (Orbiter Processing Facility), has already received her expansive…
An investigation team has been assembled at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) following a failure…
NASA and Lockheed Martin are moving forward with their respective proposals for the all-important parachute…
China has conducted two spacewalks from its Tiangong space station in as many months and…
With summer and winter for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres now in full swing, the…
SpaceX’s next mission as part of its Transporter small payload rideshare program, Transporter 14, launched…
As space-based research and manufacturing ramp up, a market is emerging for returning payloads to…
This week, China launched a near-Earth asteroid sample return mission amongst several other missions. Meanwhile,…
