{"id":5388,"date":"2018-04-04T08:57:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T08:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=5388"},"modified":"2018-04-04T08:57:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T08:57:51","slug":"mars-parachute-sent-high-up-in-key-nasa-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2018\/04\/04\/mars-parachute-sent-high-up-in-key-nasa-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars parachute sent high up in key NASA test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A supersonic parachute designed for future missions to Mars has undergone a successful test in which it was sent very high up in the sky in a rocket from NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.<!--more-->The test was meant to mimic the conditions that a spacecraft would experience during a Red Planet entry, descent and landing, Space.com reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The successful launch of Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment or ASPIRE atop a sounding rocket on Saturday came after several days of delays due to rough seas at the parachute\u2019s recovery zone in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-meter-long Terrier-Black Brant IX rocket carried ASPIRE to a maximum altitude of 51 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>The parachute unfurled shortly thereafter, while ASPIRE was travelling significantly faster than the speed of sound.<\/p>\n<p>ASPIRE went so high up because the Martian atmosphere is just one per cent as dense as that of Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The payload was a bullet-nosed, cylindrical structure holding a supersonic parachute, the parachute\u2019s deployment mechanism, and the test\u2019s high-definition instrumentation, including cameras, to record data.<\/p>\n<p>The payload splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean 40 miles from Wallops Island and will be recovered and returned to Wallops for data retrieval and inspection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture source: Alamy Image<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A supersonic parachute designed for future missions to Mars has undergone a successful test in which it was sent very high up in the sky in a rocket from NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[103,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5390,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions\/5390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}