NASA To Add Two Small Helicopters to Mars Sample Return Armada

August 03, 2022
joint Mars Sample Return Mission rendering
NASA and ESA are working on a simpler plan for the joint Mars Sample Return Mission that cancels a fetch rover and adds a pair of helicopters to serve as backup transports for Perseverance.
Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech
NASA had hoped to one day parlay the technologies developed to demonstrate powered flight on Mars into operational missions. But engineers on the ongoing Ingenuity helicopter program did not expect to do so in the next 18 months. With the Mars Perseverance rover operating well and its companion...

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