A drogue parachute is a small, tough parachute. It opens first when a spacecraft comes back to Earth. It stops the spacecraft from spinning wildly at super-fast speeds. This keeps it steady so bigger ...

As the Orion spacecraft hurtles home, friction caused by re-entry into Earth's atmosphere will drastically decrease its speed from a potential 25,000 miles per hour (40,000 kilometers per hour). But ...

According to ISRO, the sequence begins with two apex cover separation parachutes, which remove the protective cover of the parachute compartment.

With these parachutes you have one shot and it's got to work then. So we have redundancy built into each of the four types of parachutes. We can lose one forward bay cover parachute, one drogue, one ...