Karman wins NASA JPL contract to develop parachute deployment system for Mars mission
KRMN•Karman Space & Defense was selected by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop the parachute deployment system for the SkyFall Mars mission. NASA targets a November 2028 launch window for the mission, which will deploy three helicopters.
1. SkyFall contract
Karman Space & Defense was selected by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop the parachute deployment system for the SkyFall Mars mission, marking its first full design and development of a system for a Mars mission. NASA targets a November 2028 launch window for SkyFall, which will deploy three helicopters to study Martian weather and subsurface ice.
