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NASA’s Mars Ingenuity Helicopter Completes Second Flight
The experimental vehicle named Ingenuity flew higher and longer in its second flight on Mars. Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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NASA Mars Helicopter’s Flight: Livestream, Date and Time
Early on Monday, a robotic helicopter that NASA sent to Mars will try to rise a few feet in the air, hover and come back down. With that simple feat, it would become the first […]
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Earth to Voyager 2: After a Year in the Darkness, We Can Talk to You Again
“I think there was probably a big sigh of relief there,” Mr. Nagle said. “And we were very pleased to be able to confirm that the spacecraft was still talking to us.” The work got […]
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A.I. Is Flying Drones (Very, Very Slowly)
A drone from the University of Zurich is an engineering and technical marvel. It also moves slower than someone taking a Sunday morning jog. At the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Madrid […]
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Space Is Very Big. Some of Its New Explorers Will Be Tiny.
Last year, two satellites the size of cereal boxes sped toward Mars as though they were on an invisible track in space. Officially called MarCO A and MarCO B, they were nicknamed Wall-E and EVE, […]