NASA’s NEW Spacecraft just passed a very important test, ready to beat laugh!

NASA’s NEW Spacecraft just passed a very important test, ready to beat laugh! === #greatspacex #elonmusk #spacex #nasa #spacexstarship == Advertisers who want to place ads on our channel, please contact the email manager: smanager339@ === SpaceX Starship SN Be the first to sponsor us Thank you. === NASA’s NEW Spacecraft just passed a very important test, ready to beat laugh! As SpaceX Dragon prepares for its first spacewalk, Boeing’s Starliner just tested its parachute system! However, later than never, this is a huge milestone for NASA’s next spacecraft to ferry humans and cargo to and from the ISS. Specifically, after a small modification to the main parachute’s soft links, which connect the suspension lines to the riser extensions, engineers set out to prove the system in a real-world test on a remote drop zone at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground on January 9. Parachute deployment and a soft landing of the test article were visually confirmed. Preliminary data analysis of this two-parachute test suggests the primary test objectives were met. The drop test, which used a Starliner parachute system attached to a dart-shaped sled the same weight as a Starliner, was performed to confirm the functioning of a redesigned and strengthened soft link joint that is part of the network of lines connecting the parachutes to the spacecraft. The test also validated a change to strengthen one textile joint in the parachute, increasing overall parachute robustness. As with other capsules, Starliner relies on parachutes to land safely when it returns to Earth. A C-130 cargo aircraft from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, carried the test article and parachutes high above the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona before releasing them. Engineering teams, CFT astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Starliner-1 astronaut Mike Fincke watched from the drop zone below. The Starliner main parachutes were lifted from the test article using flight-like pilot parachutes before inflating fully to slow the test dart to the same soft-landing velocity experienced by the Starliner spacecraft in flight. The Starliner’s parachute system consists of two forward heat shield parachutes, two drogue parachutes and three pilot mortar deployed main canopies, but for the test only two of the main parachutes were deployed. “The system is designed so it can operate with only one drogue or two mains and still meet all its requirements,” said James McMichael senior technical integration manager with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. “They can tolerate a drogue or a main parachute failure.” ---- We use images and content in accordance with the YouTube Fair Use copyright guidelines: Any questions about copyright please send us via Gmail: colonbina25@ To be resolved, thank you.