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Stories about: parachute

First Dragon High Altitude Drop Test Successful This month, SpaceX completed successfully its first Dragon high altitude drop test with the purpose of validating the parachute deployment system and recovery operations before the first flight of an operational Dragon, later this year.On the August 12, nine miles off the coast of Morro Bay, California, an Erickson S... 23 August 2010 10:59 GMT Phoenix Prepares to Start Digging The Phoenix Mars Lander has now more than 24 hours on the Red Planet and it is still undergoing preparations for expected digging missions, which it will need to complete in the following months. As soon as it set foot on Martian soil, Phoenix went right to work and in approximately two hours after the landing it sen... 27 May 2008 03:32 GMT