NASA successfully tested the Orion spacecrafts parachute system on March 16, 2018, at the U.S. Army Proving Ground in Yuma, Arizona, during which engineers integrated a partial system failure into the test protocol for the first time. For its final test on Sept. 12, 2018, an Orion test capsule will be dropped from a C-17 aircraft at an altitude of more than six miles to verify the spacecrafts complex parachute system provides a safe landing on Earth.
Credits: NASA/ James Blair
NASA is inviting media to view the final test of the Orion spacecrafts parachute system on Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the U.S. Armys Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. This test is the last in a series of eight to qualify the parachutes for crewed Orion missions to the Moon and beyond.
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