A Chinese Long March 2B rocket's booster was outfitted with a parachute for a launch. The system provides controlled landing ...

This piece of engineering is so simple and elegant, you’ll want to build a pretty serious water rocket just so you can try it out. It’s an automatic parachute deployment system that you build ...

[The Q] is one such experimenter, who built a dual-thrust water rocket that even has a parachute for landing! The testing took place in an area strangely reminiscent of a certain operating system.

From the control center comes a countdown: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The rockets blast off, then gently float back to Earth under parachutes—if they don’t malfunction. An attendee works on a laptop from ...

The capsule that will one day ferry Indian astronauts to space and return them to Earth has been fitted with the key ...

Since then, they’ve moved to an office with real desks, gone through Y Combinator, and, today, announced an oversubscribed $6 ...

Part of the competition was building a rocket with a dual-deploy recovery system (two parachutes), so we attended webinars about how to connect our parachutes to sensors and Arduino computers so that ...