{"id":86724,"date":"2025-08-23T05:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/86724\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T05:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:27:09","slug":"epic-research-can-help-mars-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/86724\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Research Can Help Mars Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The parachute of the Enhancing Parachutes by Instrumenting the Canopy, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/nasa-tests-epic-solution-for-supersonic-parachute-deliveries\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EPIC<\/a>, test experiment deploys following an air launch from an Alta X drone on June 4, 2025, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/armstrong\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/armstrong\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s Armstrong Flight Research Center<\/a> in Edwards, California. NASA researchers are developing technology to make supersonic parachutes safer and more reliable for delivering instruments and payloads to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>The flight tests were a first step toward filling gaps in computer models to improve supersonic parachutes. This work could also open the door to future partnerships, including with the aerospace and auto racing industries.<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: NASA\/Christopher LC Clark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The parachute of the Enhancing Parachutes by Instrumenting the Canopy, or EPIC, test experiment deploys following an air&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[15523,43636,90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-86724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-armstrong-flight-research-center","9":"tag-flight-innovation","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}