Nighthawk would fly to altitudes of up to 4,920 feet (1,500 meters) above the Martian average, covering distances of up to ...

Engineers working on NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter assembled for one last time in a control room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Tuesday, April 16 ...

The little Ingenuity drone proved that helicopters can play a revolutionary role in Mars exploration. Now, NASA is thinking ...

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NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter made history early Monday when the drone became the first powered craft to fly on another world. In this video, WSJ visits the company NASA contracted to build ...

NASA's proposed 'Nighthawk' mission aims to explore Mars' vast volcanic canyons, searching for signs of life, water and ...

Nasa’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter transmitted its final message to Earth and will now serve as an immobile data-gathering unit on the red planet’s surface, the space agency said last month.

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So here’s a closer look at Ingenuity, and what it takes to build a helicopter that will explore another world. Despite coverage in the popular press about how NASA is sending a drone to Mars ...

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NASA compared Ingenuity's flight to the feat achieved in 1903 by the Wright brothers, who made the first motor flight. Morillo recalled that the helicopter carries under its rotors a small piece ...