parachutes

Inconsistent labels in the OSIRIS-REx landing plans are what caused the out-of-order parachute deployment during the return capsule’s descent to Earth on September 24, NASA stated in a release yesterday.Zillow Says You’ll Buy Your Next House With… AI? | AI UnlockedOSIRIS-REx carried samples of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in late September—an “astrobiologist’s dream,” as Gizmodo previously reported. Bennu is a relic of the solar system’s formation, so scrutiny of its composition will offer hints at the primordial…

SpaceX is known for its vertical integration, but one component it’s been outsourcing is parachutes — until earlier this month, when the company quietly acquired parachute vendor Pioneer Aerospace after its parent company went bankrupt. The Information first reported the news. This is the second known acquisition for SpaceX, which acquired small satellite startup Swarm in 2021 for a $524 million mostly-stock deal. Pioneer is coming much more cheaply: SpaceX has snapped it up for just $2.2 million, according to a…

The Call of Duty devs are always trying to stay one step ahead of cheaters to protect the experience for all of us regular non-jerky players. Their latest move to prevent cheating may just be the funniest one yet. The devs have announced an When a cheater deploys, the system occasionally disables their parachute, sending them careening to the ground until they, well, go splat.This was designed to call as much attention to the cheater as possible, with devs saying it’ll be “immediately obvious” who’s trying to game the…

Boeing is standing down from the first-ever crewed launch of its Starliner astronaut capsule for NASA, possibly indefinitely, due to safety issues with the spacecraft's parachutes and wiring that were discovered last week.  The Starliner astronaut launch, already years behind schedule, was most recently targeted to launch two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on July 21. Now, it likely won't launch at all this summer, and may not get off the ground this year. "It's feasible, but I certainly wouldn't…

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Indian space agency successfully conducted the Rail Track Rocket Sled deployment tests of the Gaganyaan Pilot and Apex Cover Separation (ACS) parachutes in cluster configurations, said Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).According to ISRO, the tests were carried out at the Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory (TBRL), Chandigarh, on March 1 and 3, 2023.Gaganyaan is the name for India's first human space mission.The Indian space agency said, the first test simulated the clustered deployment of two pilot…

via Sony It’s very rarely the best franchises that enjoy longevity, not when the law of diminishing returns sets in eventually. It’s one of the few things no long-running saga can outrun forever, but based on how Netflix subscribers are responding to Sniper: Ghost Shooter, quality doesn’t mean a damn thing when people are willing to watch. As per FlixPatrol, the run-of-the-mill shoot ’em up has parachuted right onto the platform’s global Top 10 charts after being added to the library in many international…

‘After about fifteen minutes, I flew into a gap in the clouds at about 4000 feet where the sky was quite clear. Some other Germans made for this clearing and soon we were surrounded by a dozen German fighters and a dogfight ensued. One dived on me and I was hit almost immediately, but only in the right leg. He was obviously as scared as I was, for instead of flying off, he continued past and below me, still diving, and I simply pulled the triggers of both my Vickers guns straight at his tail as he flew past, and had the…