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Space

NASA Mars Helicopter: ‘The Next Time We Fly, We Fly on Mars’

By Brian Garrett-Glaser

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019

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NASA Mars Helicopter: ‘The Next Time We Fly, We Fly on Mars’

A rendering of NASA's autonomous Mars Helicopter on the Martian Surface. (Nasa/JPL-CalTech)

In July 2020, NASA will send a new rover to Mars and in its belly will ride a helicopter capable of flight in the Red Planet's unforgiving, low-density atmosphere. Scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) tested a smaller-scale model of their Mars Helicopter in their space simulator and successfully conducted two test flights in Martian conditions. The Mars Helicopter project was announced in May 2018 as a way to demonstrate the “viability and potential of heavier-than-air vehicles on the Red…

Congress

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Congress

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Congress

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Congress

MOSA Implementation By Pentagon Lagging, GAO Official Says

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