Karman Space & Defense Selected to Develop Parachute Deployment System for NASA JPL’s SkyFall Mars Mission
Karman Space & Defense was selected by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to design and develop the parachute deployment mortar for the SkyFall mission to Mars, its first system designed for a Mars mission. The mortar is mission-critical: it deploys the parachute during entry and descent before SkyFall releases three autonomous helicopters to study Martian weather and subsurface ice.
Key figures
- Helicopters
- 3
- Launch window
- November 2028
- Heritage years
- 50
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