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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

AeroVironment, in collaboration with NASA, introduced a new Mars helicopter for exploration, Skyfall. The concept involved a ...