Karman Space & Defense Selected to Develop Parachute Deployment System for NASA JPL’s SkyFall Mars Mission

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)—- $KRMN #ImpossibleEndsHere–Karman Space & Defense (NYSE: KRMN) has been selected by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to design and develop the parachute deployment system, referred to as a mortar, for NASA’s SkyFall mission to Mars. The mortar is a mission-critical element of SkyFall’s entry and descent sequence. As the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere, Karman’s system will deploy a parachute to slow the vehicle before the mission releases three helicopters to

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