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NASA's Martian helicopter promises unprecedented views of the red planet

When NASA's Ingenuity helicopter took flight on Mars in April 2021, it marked a historic moment in space exploration. This small, solar-powered rotorcraft became the first aircraft to achieve powered, ...
Digital Trends

The NASA Mars helicopter’s work is not done, it turns out

NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has been grounded since January 18 after suffering damage to one of its rotors as it came in to land. The team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which ...

NASA’s Mars helicopter blades broke the sound barrier without disintegrating, and JPL may have unlocked the next leap in alien flight

NASA engineers spun next-gen Mars helicopter blades past Mach 1 without shattering them. See how JPL unlocked the future of alien flight.

NASA engineers say new rotor breakthrough could enable supersonic helicopter flight

NASA engineers have pushed experimental Mars helicopter rotors past the speed of sound, a breakthrough that could eventually ...
Houston Public Media

NASA sends specialized aircraft from Houston to Texas Hill Country to help with flood recovery

NASA’s high-altitude WB-57 aircraft departs July 8, 2025, from Ellington Field in Houston. Two high-altitude aircraft from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston were deployed to the Texas Hill ...
Digital Trends

NASA learns how the Ingenuity helicopter ended up crashing on Mars

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, right, stands near the apex of a sand ripple in an image taken by Perseverance on Feb. 24, 2024, about five weeks after the rotorcraft’s final flight. Part of one of ...
Mashable

NASA's new images reveal what happened to its crashed Mars helicopter

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on the Martian desert floor. The craft made over 70 successful flights on Mars. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / LANL / CNES / IRAP / Simeon Schmauß Mars is hard, even for ...

NASA’s new supersonic X-59 aircraft shows off its dizzying acrobatics in new video

It’s been over a decade since engineers officially got to work on the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST). Designed in collaboration with NASA, Lockheed Martin’s state-o ...
TweakTown

NASA's Mars helicopter sends heart-warming final message back to Earth

Ingenuity, NASA's Mars helicopter was forced to end its mission after taking some critical damage in a landing, but the small helicopter will not be going gently into that good Martian night. NASA ...
Forbes

NASA Conducts First Aircraft Accident Investigation On Another Planet — What To Know

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity on Mars. It will sit forever on the apex of a sand ripple in Jezero Crater on Mars. Ingenuity, NASA’s name for its Mars Helicopter, achieved the first powered flight on ...
SpaceNews

NASA’s Mars Helicopter to Make First Flight Attempt Sunday

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is two days away from making humanity’s first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. If all proceeds as planned, the 4-pound (1.8-kg) ...