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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Carl Sagan famously said, “Second graders make the best scientists.” I find they make the best engineers, too. My 2nd graders’ favorite project is to design, build, test, and modify a parachute for a ...