Time-lapse of Mars helicopter Ingenuity's 32nd and 33rd flight

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity recently completed a pair of flights. See the first imagery from flight 33 and a time-lapse ...

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 ...

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab make a breakthrough in rotor technology

A little more than three years since NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter ended its pioneering mission at Mars, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California are designing next-generation Martian ...

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.
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Watch NASA's new Mars helicopter rotor break the speed of sound (video)

NASA is testing the limits of future Mars aircraft as it works to develop a next-generation fleet of helicopters that will ...
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Next-Gen Helicopter Blades Tested at Supersonic Speeds Ahead of 2028 Mission to Mars

The American space agency announced last week that it managed to make the blades of a SkyFall helicopter go over the sound barrier without everything turning to dust. The achievement was recorded in a ...