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 ...

While the duration of the Skyfall mission has not been revealed yet, its objective will be exploring regions that will ensure ...

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

Defense tech company AeroVironment and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have shown off a wild concept for deploying six ...

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

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

In December, NASA unveiled another concept: an SUV-sized “ Mars Chopper ” with six rotor blades. This larger helicopter would ...

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

These helicopters will assist in scouting safe landing zones for future robotic missions and, crucially, America’s first Martian astronauts.

A slick trailer shows how NASA could five-up itself if the successor to Ingenuity is a whole batch of little sisters.

The Skyfall mission by NASA and Virginia-based AeroVironment plans to send six helicopters to Mars in one go, having all of them landing independently in different places. They will scout for spots ...

Skyfall is designed to deploy six scout helicopters on Mars, where they would explore many of the sites selected by NASA and ...