Heathcoat Fabrics are working with NASA again to make parachute material for a future mission to Mars.
A company in Devon is developing a new fabric to be used on a parachute to land on Mars.successfully creating the parachute materialThe latest fabric needs to be twice as strong as that one, due to the size of vehicle it is delivering.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.
"We have been making parachute fabrics since the 1930s, about 90 years, and on top of that we have got innovative new machinery, we can make wider fabric than anyone else which is necessary for the bigger parachutes," he said.The material has to be twice as strong as the previous parachute the firm made for NASA
"We have high-tech products that are much stronger than any other fabrics on the market, They have got higher heat resistance which is necessary because the fabrics need to be treated at that high temperature before they go into space. "Other fabrics - made in the US for example - have failed those tests. We have got a team of textile engineers who work on these products and can design bespoke products that nobody else can do."
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Tiverton firm making more parachute fabric for MarsHeathcoat Fabrics are working with NASA again to make parachute material for a future mission to Mars.
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