The spacecraft crashed into the Pacific Ocean after a parachute failure, ending a bold experiment in space biology and ...

A mission to carry the remains of more than 160 dead people to space and return them to their families failed terribly when the spacecraft carrying them crashed into the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, June ...

A NASA team specializing in collecting imagery-based engineering datasets from spacecraft during launch and reentry is supporting a European aerospace company's upcoming mission to return a subscale ...

Beagle 2 has been carried to the vicinity of Mars by the Mars Express mothership, and released successfully to go its own way for the final leg of the journey. The easy part is over. Beagle's ...

Images from the scene show the 70-foot-wide parachute of the capsule still attached to the vessel, which limited the impact it had when hitting the surface of Mars. Around 1.3 miles from the ...

The Soviets successfully landed probes on the surface of Venus, a hellish landscape of intense heat and pressure, where they lasted for longer than Mars 3 did on the cold surface of Mars.

Perseverance is rolling across Mars and making history as it goes. On Feb. 18, NASA's Perseverance rover officially aced its journey to Mars and survived a harrowing landing to arrive safely on ...

From Space.com: Europe’s Mars Express remains set for launch June 2 and is to be the opening volley in a salvo of Mars robotic spacecraft heading to the Red Planet during the coming weeks.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched from Earth in 2005 before reaching the red planet the following year. As the Perseverance spacecraft floated toward the planet with an open parachute ...

NASA has released a set of photographs taken on April 19, showing the heat shield and parachute used to land the Perseverance Rover on Mars on February 18, 2021.

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 ...

In comparison, the parachute of Tianwen-1 must be able to get opened reliably within the range of Ma1.6~Ma2.3 and dynamic pressure range of 250Pa~850Pa. Under the high-altitude opening test conducted ...