Engineers from Polytechnique Montréal have unveiled a new parachute concept based on kirigami, the Japanese art of folding and cutting. The design is simple, robust, and low-cost, with potential to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of engineers in Montréal has reinvented the parachute using kirigami, the ancient art of paper cutting. (CREDIT: Frédérick ...

Parachute design, development, and testing for planets beyond Earth is very similar to those designed for Earth. First, we pick a parachute type or shape based on the expected speed of the probe when ...

X-ray-based experiments will simulate -- in microscopic detail -- spacecraft parachute fabric performance in the extreme conditions of other planets' atmospheres. As skydivers well know, it's a good ...

For an engineer, there's perhaps no greater feeling than to be given a problem and then devising a successful solution. More often than not, the satisfaction—or disappointment—that results from such a ...

Albert Kolk's small plane banked uncontrollably in darkness over the Monashee mountains, then began spiraling. "Seat belts!" he barked to his teenage grandson and two young friends. Then he reached ...