SPACE The US company is exploring new ways to improve its capsule landing in the idea of transporting astronauts from next year …
Already used to supply food and equipment the International Space Station (ISS), the capsule SpaceX Dragon V2 should deliver astronauts to the manned station starting next year and bring them back to earth.
Among the tracks developed to improve the braking his shuttle landing, the company of US billionaire Elon Musk, considering huge parachutes.
If, as the site says Clubic is foremost on his eight SuperDraco Dragon V2 engines that will count for a soft landing, the four giant parachutes, once deployed, will allow the space module to slow down and touch the ground smoothly. The first tests, in any case, have been inconclusive.
In the United States, all leaders in space exploration have their eyes on performance and research SpaceX, the private actor allow the country to become independent of Russian shuttle Soyuz to transport its men and women into space. A confidence that gives wings to the boss of the company, which does not hide its ambition to colonize Mars within 10-12 years.
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