2015, the Danish nonprofit aerospace organisation Copenhagen Suborbitals were engaged in testing a ballute for its Nexø rockets. In April 2018, SpaceX's Elon Musk tweeted "SpaceX will try to bring rocket upper stage back from orbital velocity using a giant party balloon." However, the plan was called off. In August 2019, Peter Beck, founder of Rocket Lab, announced that they would attempt to recover their Electron rocket's lower stage utilising a ballute for supersonic deceleration, enabling the stage to be captured in mid-air by a helicopter. References External links Ballute on parachutehistory.com Ballute news on scitechdaily.com Spacecraft components Aircraft components Spaceflight technology