Nasa is gearing itself up to attempt the first controlled flight on another planet next week, with the tiny Ingenuity helicopter set to take flight on Mars. The helicopter is expected to take to the skies next week with Wednesday being the earliest time scheduled. Ingenuity arrived at the Jezero […]
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NASA’s experimental Ingenuity helicopter hopes to take flight on Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. Let’s take a moment to marvel at the phrase “the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.” NASA hopes to achieve that momentous milestone very […]
The Perseverance rover captured the Ingenuity helicopter before (left) and after (right) spinning its rotor blades at low speed. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU NASA has delayed the first flight of its Ingenuity Mars helicopter after a crucial test-spin of the drone’s rotor blades abruptly stopped. This was the last major test to make […]
NASA is set to fly the first test flight of its tiny Ingenuity helicopter on Mars Sunday, marking the advent of drones for space exploration. Why it matters: If successful, this flight will be the first time a human-built aircraft has flown on a world other than Earth, opening the […]
SECOND NATUREScenes From a World Remade By Nathaniel Rich On average, an American man puts 85 man-made chemicals into his body every day, while an American woman takes in nearly twice that amount. Rich tourists pay top dollar for disaster tours to gawk at New Orleans’s Katrina-devastated Lower Ninth Ward, […]
General Atomics’ Christina Back: Nuclear thermal propulsion “will enable spacecraft to travel immense distances quickly” WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $22 million contract to General Atomics to design a small nuclear reactor for space propulsion, the agency announced April 9. General Atomics, based in San […]
OneWeb and SpaceX, the powerhouses in the internet satellite industry, had dangerously close encounter last weekend that was out of this world. Two satellites from each firm came within 190 feet of each other in orbit April 4, which sparked several ‘red alerts’ from the US Space Force’s 18th Space […]
President Joe Biden has outlined his 2022 budget priorities for science. AP Photo/Evan Vucci By Jeffrey MervisApr. 9, 2021 , 2:15 PM President Joe Biden today proposed huge increases for many federal research agencies as part of a $118 billion boost in domestic spending. The increases over the current year […]