Airborne Systems North America congratulates NASA and SpaceX Crew-5 on a successful splashdown off the coast of Florida. Airborne Systems is proud to provide the main parachute systems for Dragon and assist in the return of its crew. The Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance, autonomously undocked, departed the space station, and splashed down Saturday night. Video […]
Airborne Systems Celebrates Our Very Own Ben Tutt Presented the Theodor W. Knacke Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Award Airborne Systems North America is proud to congratulate our Director of Engineering, Space and Recovery: Ben Tutt. Ben has been presented the Theodor W. Knacke Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Award. This award is the highest recognition in our industry. […]
Congratulations Orion and the Artemis team on a superb mission! Airborne is proud to be the supplier of the eleven parachutes that brought Orion back for a magnificent splashdown. Designed and tested at Airborne over the past 16 years the system is well qualified and proven for future human rated missions. Airborne looks forward to […]
ASNA (Airborne Systems North America) graduated the first 8 Military Free Fall Jumpers on the new USMC PS-2 Parachute designed and manufactured by Airborne Systems. The graduating of these jumpers along with the assessment of the United States Special Operations Command serves as the Validation and Certification for ASNA to begin the full 44 student […]
Airborne congratulates the LaRC LOFTID and ULA teams on a spectacular launch and deployment of the HIAD (Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator) technology. This ambitious mission further demonstrated the viability and value of the HIAD technology and raised the TRL to help integrate this exciting and innovative deceleration technology into America’s space programs. Airborne is honored […]
On Saturday, September 18, the four crewmembers of the SpaceX Inspiration4 capsule returned safely to earth. The ocean landing off the coast of Florida went smoothly and demonstrated the months (years) of preparation, the engineering and the swift orchestration of descent procedures. The controlled descent begins when the capsule is initially slowed upon reentry into […]
Unless you’ve been living on a different planet, you may have already heard that NASA has just landed the heaviest and most sophisticated rover, Percy (OK, officially Perseverance), on the Red planet. What you may not have heard is that a hundred year old company in Southern California, just 50 miles south of NASA JPL, […]
By now, some of you have figured out there was a secret message in our parachute that just landed on Mars last week. But what did it say? Find out the decoding of the message here.
Mars Perseverance Sol 2: Rover Down-Look Camera NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Rover Down-Look Camera. This camera is mounted on the bottom of the rover and looks down at the surface.
Tomorrow, the Perseverance rover, built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, will become the next robotic inhabitant of Mars, joining another rover, a lander, and multiple orbiters currently at work on or around the Red Planet. What sets this explorer apart? There are multiple ways for you to watch history be made tomorrow. You […]
