2023-01-25 07:41:43
Tiverton firm making more parachute fabric for Mars
BBC
A company in Devon is developing a new fabric to be used on a parachute to land on Mars.
Heathcoat Fabrics in Tiverton are working with NASA again, after successfully creating the parachute material that took a rover to the red planet in 2021.
The latest fabric needs to be twice as strong as that one, due to the size of vehicle it is delivering.
On Tuesday they were visited by representatives of NASA.
Katie Siegel, Systems Engineer at NASA said: "Our plan is to build an even bigger lander that will go to Mars and hopefully be able to package up samples and bring them back, and to land that we need a bigger parachute that can take on much more load."
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