Most amateur high altitude balloon payloads descend back to earth with a simple non-steerable parachute ... that can deploy reliably, so he started doing tests with a borrowed scale model ...

SpaceX is significantly upping the ante of its Starship test flight program, with the next rocket launch expected to ...

Stuffed with sensors and entirely 3D printed, Cortex 1 flew well, but the parachute failed to deploy mainly due to an imperfectly bonded assembly. The hatch was recovered, but the rocket was lost.