ExoMars parachute
A parachute developed for the ExoMars mission is successfully tested in a high-altitude balloon drop test in Sweden in June.

The European Space Agency has resumed tests of the parachutes for its ExoMars lander, a system whose problems contributed to a two-year delay in the mission’s launch.

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