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parachute-shaped"sea anchor"to slow down a drifting ship and put it in a better position for rescue and recovery operations.
At the end of the chain is a 30-metre-wide sea anchor that opens under water like a parachute both slowing down the drifting ship and turning it 90 degrees.
though, the VC200 comes equipped with a parachute. Recently a prototype of the VC200 took to the skies for its first series of test flights.
and return to Earth using a parachute to slow its decent through the atmosphere about 8 days later.
The current version of Dragon deploys a parachute as it descends and splashes down in the ocean.
Until recently NASA had used parachutes and airbags for most robotic landings on Mars starting with the Viking mission in 1976.
which combined parachutes with landing gear powered by retrorockets that could lower the rover to the surface on tethers.
Such weight can't be slowed adequately by parachutes in the Martian air which is just 1 per cent as dense as Earth's. Unfortunately rocket-powered landings are out of the question too as the atmosphere is still just thick enough to buffet incoming spacecraft with more turbulence than thrusters can accommodate.
and a giant parachute twice the size of Curiosity's. The decelerator would attach to the outer rim of a capsule-like entry vehicle.
and moments later the parachute will fire. The saucer should gently splash down in open water.
But maybe a simple parachute could slow them down enough for a safe landing Sunspiral says.
You can either grab a parachute and bail out, or you can plug in your headphones and keep watching the in-flight Hollywood entertainment,
along with a low-altitude parachute for use should things go wrong. After initial test flights in 2011
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