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- › SpaceX's Dragon Spacecraft successfully completes high altitude drop test
- › Airborne Systems demonstrates new air deployable life raft
- › HDT To Present Integrated Expeditionary Solutions
- › Airborne Systems To Open New Tactical Parachute Training
- › Airborne Systems Unveils Enhanced UNICROSS Cargo Parachute
- › Airborne Systems Delivers Full Rate Production T-11 Parachute Systems To The U.S.
- › HDT International Holdings Announces The Acquisition Of Airborne Systems Group
- › Airborne Systems Targets DEFEXPO With A Comprehensive Aerial Delivery Capability
- › Airborne Systems Wins A Breakthrough Contract In France
- › Airborne Systems Wins Largest Share Of T‐11 Production Contract
- › Airborne Systems precision airdrop system is rolled out to all US Military Forces.
- › Airborne Systems L.C.A.D. parachute provides drop & forget solution in hostile areas.
- › NASA Astronaut Visits Airborne Systems Space and Recovery Facility
- › Airborne Systems Celebrates 90th Anniversary of Irvin’s Historic Parachute Jump
- › Airborne Days Showcases Parachute Technology to Allied Military Audience
- › Airborne Systems Receives AS9100 Certification
- › Airborne Systems Sets New Payload Record for Largest Guided Ram-Air Parachute
- › Airborne Systems Successfully Deploys Worlds Largest Guided Ram-Air Parachute
- › Airborne Systems HAHO Oxygen System Receives C-17 Certification from USAF
- › Airborne Systems Showcases New Parachute Technologies to Egyptian Airborne Special Forces
- › Airborne Systems & ILC Dover Team on Airbag Landing and Flotation System for Orion Vehicle
- › Airborne Systems Meets Milestones On New Parachutes For French Forces
- › Local parachute manufacturer organised charity sky-dive
- › The Story of the Most Advanced and Safest Troop Parachute in the World, the T-11
- › Airborne Systems Demonstrates Modular Heavy Payload Guided Ram-Air Parachute
- › U.S. Army Selects Airborne Systems DragonFly and FireFly
- › Airborne Systems Selected To Design Parachutes for SpaceX Rocket
- › Airborne Systems Announces Realignment Initiative
- › Airborne Systems Showcases New Parachute Technologies to Global Military Audience
- › Para-Flite Successfully Flies World’s Largest Parachute
- › IRVIN AEROSPACE LEVERAGES POWER OF SGI ALTIX SYSTEM
- › Irvin Aerospace Selected to Design Parachutes for NASA’s Orion Spacecraft
- › Irvin Aerospace to Assist in the Commercialization of Space
- › Irvin Aerospace Aids in Record Breaking Air Launch Drop Test
- › Santa Ana Firm to Design NASA landing system
- › Irvin Aerospace Awarded $7.96M Contract for New Army Parachutes
- › Para-Flite, Inc. Announces New Personnel Parachute System
- › Para-Flite, Inc. Announces New Equipment Delivery System
- › Para-Flite, Inc. Selected to Develop 30,000 lb Joint Precision Airdrop System
- › Orbital Successfully Launches Medium Range Target for U.S. Missile Defense Agency
- › Parachute Maker Eyes Military, NASA for Flight
- › Parachute Maker Rebounds on NASA Work
- › An Ultra Lightweight System That’s Not Light On Technology
- › Naval Decoy Corner Reflectors in today’s Electronic Warfare Scenario
- › Association of the United States Army Industry Affairs
- › Down to Earth Manufacturing Magazine
- › MODERN MILITARY PARACHUTE OPERATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY
- › Airborne Systems to Make Recovery Parachutes for SpaceX Rocket and Capsule
- › Formulas That Work Aviation Week Magazine
- › Airborne Systems DSEI Daily
- › GPS used to 'steer' cargo parachutes
- › US Army selects DragonFly and FireFly self-guided parachutes
- › Mass Tactical Canopy (T-11) Personnel Parachute System
- › Water Rescue at Jackson Bay
- › Emergency airdrop kits may help those lost in wilderness survive
- › Airbag Backup, Orion designing partial airbags for 'contingency land landing'
- › T-11 feature Land Warfare Intenational
- › JPADS Looking To The Skies For Support esprit de corps Magazine
- › Army Prepares to Field Safer, Stronger Parachute Army Times
- › Positioning for the Future ULW
- › Aerial delivery parachute insertion feature Jane's IDR
- › Pinpoint Deliver: sharper aerial insertion methods hit the spot
- › On an upward trajectory
- › Airborne Systems tests new large lighweight canopy
- › Airborne Systems technology brings Space-X spacecraft to safe splashdown
- › 10,000TH T-11 PARACHUTE SYSTEM PRODUCED
- › AIRBORNE SYSTEMS AND HDT GLOBAL DEMONSTRATE THEIR CAPABILITIES TO INTERNATIONAL MILITARY CUSTOMERS
- › AIRBORNE SYSTEMS DEVELOPS ONE-TIME RAM AIR PARACHUTE
- › Airdrop technology meet today’s military logistics needs
- › HDT Global and Airborne Systems expand to meet need of Canadian Military
- › Expertise in ejection seat parachute technology confirmed following successful tests on JSF aircraft
- › Norway orders new boat airdrop system
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- › Airborne Systems Wins $27 Million U.S. Army Contract to Replace U.S. Forces’ Military Freefall Parachutes
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Kistler K-1 Reusable Launch Vehicle
ASNA developed the 156 ft diameter ringsail for the terminal descent phase for both stages of the Kistler K-1 vehicle. The launch assist platform (LAP) weighed 52,000 lbs and employed a cluster of six canopies. The orbital vehicle (OV) weighed 27,000 lbs and employed a cluster of 3-canopies. The canopies were extensively tested in the single, 3-parachute, and 6-parachute configurations and exhibited similar drag efficiencies as the EELV class canopies.
