NASA Studying Flying-Wing Mars Aircraft

Credit: NASA
A small unmanned aircraft that would deploy from a cubesat released by a Mars lander as it enters the planet’s atmosphere is being studied by NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center. The flying-wing UAV could reconnoiter for future landing sites as it descends to the Martian surface. The Prandtl-M...

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