NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator met all of its flight objectives during Saturday’s test, the first of three planned for the project. Subsequent tests will be used to evaluate new landing technologies for future Mars missions.

Check out a bunch of short videos of the test flight here.

My previous posts about the ‘flying saucer’ Low Density Supersonic Decelerator:

    Watch the NASA flying saucer (LDSD) test live today!

    NASA testing out new vehicle to deliver stuff to MARS!