The helicopters will scout the Martian surface to help prepare for a human landing on the Red Planet.

A new study identifies Amazonis Planitia, particularly the AP-8 region, as a promising landing site on Mars. This location ...

Hoping to push Mars exploration into top gear and do recon for a future crewed landing, AeroVironment has released its ...

The Skyfall concept reimagines Mars landings, deploying a six-helicopter swarm to autonomously scout for resources and future ...

The most complex parachute system to ever deploy on Mars has successfully slowed down an ExoMars mock-up landing platform for ...

NASA is preparing 1st crewed mission to lunar surface in half decade via Artemis program as it continues surveying Mars, ...

Blue Origin's first launch of its New Glenn rocket was supposed to send up a pair of Mars-bound satellites for NASA, but ...

"We are happy to confirm that we have a parachute design that can work on Mars — an ambitious system with the largest parachute ever to be flown outside Earth" ...

The aerospace technology firm on Thursday unveiled the concept, which it described as a system for potential future ...

"With six helicopters, Skyfall offers a low-cost solution that multiplies the range we would cover, the data we would collect, and the scientific research we would conduct." ...

In an exciting development, the plucky helicopter has now inspired Skyfall, a mission concept recently unveiled by Virginia-based AeroVironment (AV) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who ...

The “Skyfall maneuver” is the core innovation of the Skyfall mission. Instead of relying on a standard, costly, and complex ...