The most complex parachute system to ever deploy on Mars has successfully slowed down an ExoMars mock-up landing platform for a safe touchdown on Earth. A stratospheric helium balloon lifted a dummy ...

Parachutes being developed for Boeing's CST-100 Starliner undergo a reliability test using a "dart" in place of the crew capsule. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — An incident involving a test of parachutes ...

A scene from a video released by SpaceX Nov. 3 showing the latest test of the Mark 3 parachutes for its Crew Dragon spacecraft. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — SpaceX said Nov. 3 that it has now carried ...

A humble concept from ancient Japanese design might remake the way supplies are dropped from the air. Polytechnique Montréal engineers designed parachutes based on kirigami—cutting paper into ...

LOS ANGELES -- The skies off the Hawaiian island of Kauai will be a stand-in for Mars as NASA prepares to launch a saucer-shaped vehicle in an experimental flight designed to land heavy loads on the ...

Parachute Market, the delightfully uncorporate Los Angeles design fair and bazaar, returns to the downtown arts district this weekend with a new venue and an expanded roster of vendors. The fifth ...

X-ray-based experiments will simulate -- in microscopic detail -- spacecraft parachute fabric performance in the extreme conditions of other planets' atmospheres. As skydivers well know, it's a good ...

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 ...

Boeing's Starliner capsule is to return to Earth after a stay at the Space Station as part of a test mission before it flies astronauts. The parachutes are among the systems engineers are monitoring.