Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully conducted a critical Integrated Main parachute Airdrop Test (IMAT) for ...

Why was this parachute drop so important to India? On July 7th, 2026, an Indian Air Force IL-76 dropped a single main parachute with a dummy mass from 2.5 kilometres in the Indian state of Madhya ...

NASA has completed the final test to qualify Orion’s parachute system for flights with astronauts, checking off an important milestone on the path to send humans on missions to the Moon and beyond.

ISRO successfully conducted a key qualification test for Gaganyaan's main parachute system. This test validated the parachute ...

China's Tianwen-1 Mars probe successfully landed on the Utopia Plain at 7:18 a.m. Beijing Time, on 15 May 2021. The success rate of Mars missions is about 50%, and most failures occur during the entry ...

Houston (AFP) – As the Orion spacecraft hurtles home, friction caused by re-entry into Earth's atmosphere will drastically decrease its speed from a potential 25,000 miles per hour (40,000 kilometers ...

Click to open image viewer. The United States Army Air Corps Type A back pack parachute was the first standardized model accepted by the military. It was designed and tested by the Engineering ...

ISRO successfully tested Gaganyaan's main parachutes in Madhya Pradesh. This critical test qualified the parachute for ...

China’s Tianwen-1 Mars probe successfully landed on the Utopia Plain at 7:18 a.m. Beijing Time, on 15 May 2021. The success rate of Mars missions is about 50%, and most failures occur during the entry ...