{"id":694979,"date":"2021-07-02T05:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=694979"},"modified":"2021-07-02T05:19:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T09:19:00","slug":"first-high-altitude-drop-test-success-for-exomars-parachute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=694979","title":{"rendered":"First high-altitude drop test success for ExoMars parachute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ExoMars_parachute_high-altitude_drop_test_card_full.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After several weeks of bad weather and strong winds, the latest pair of high-altitude drop tests of the ExoMars parachutes took place in Kiruna, Sweden.\u00a0\u00a0The 15 m-wide first stage main parachute\u00a0performed flawlessly\u00a0at supersonic speeds, while the\u00a035 m-wide second stage parachute\u00a0experienced one minor damage, but decelerated the mock-up of the landing platform as expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration\/Exploration\/ExoMars\/First_high-altitude_drop_test_success_for_ExoMars_parachute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">First high-altitude drop test success for ExoMars parachute<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several weeks of bad weather and strong winds, the latest pair of high-altitude drop tests of the ExoMars parachutes took place in Kiruna, Sweden.\u00a0\u00a0The 15 m-wide first stage main&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":694980,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/694980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}