SHIELD

NASA tests SHIELD technology for spacecraft hard landing

(ORDO NEWS) — Over the years, NASA has used various mechanisms, from giant airbags and parachutes to jetpacks, to ensure a soft landing of its rovers on the surface of the Red Planet. Now, the agency plans to test a completely new method , which involves a deliberate collision of the spacecraft with the Martian surface, the protection of which will be provided by “crumple zones”. Recall that in terrestrial…