Defense technology company Aerovonment and NASA’s jet driving laboratory showed a wild concept for installing six helicopters over Mars to scare water and potential people’s landing sites.
The concept, named Skyfall, is based on a particularly successful and revolutionary Mars helicopter, which became the first human object to be created in 2021. Reached a powerful flight on another planet. He flew 72 times in three years, significantly exceeding expectations.
The Aerovonment plan is to “deploy six scout helicopters on Mars, where they would investigate many NASA and industrial sites as the best candidates landing for the first American Mars astronauts,” the press release states.
As is seen from the chic animation, the Skyfall maneuver will try to release six rotorcrafts from a much larger spacecraft through the Martian atmosphere, making it a very ambitious aspiration. However, the plan would also “eliminate the need for a landing platform – one of the most expensive, complex and risky elements of any Martian mission.”
Whether such a company will receive enough funds to implement will remain unclear. Although the Aerovironment began internal investments against the planned 2028 Starting, NASA’s budget restrictions could lead to a major challenge. Trump’s administration plans to massively reduce the budget of the Space Agency, which is called “existential threat to science”, so NASA does anything NASA is currently unclear. It was only last week that NASA JPL reportedly organized the “Sales of Business” to existing satellites, signaling difficult times.
This is not the only concept seeking to continue the great success of ingenuity. December NASA showed the Mars Chopper SUV with six rotor blade that could allow it to carry scientific useful cargo to £ 11 to £ 1.9 at Mars.
The Aerovonment leadership says its Skyfall’s concept could investigate a much more red planets for a small part of the price compared to the usual Landers and Rovers.
“Skyfall offers a revolutionary new approach to faster and more accessible than everything against him,” said William Pomerantz, CEO of Space Ventures. “With six helicopters, Skyfall offers an inexpensive solution that multiplies our range, our data and research, which we will do the first trace of humanity on Mars more meaningful.”
Skyfall plans to borrow greatly from its predecessor’s ingenuity, including “its lightweight aircraft structure suitable for a thin Martian atmosphere.”
“The inventiveness has set up the US as the first and only country to reach a powerful flight on another planet,” said Trace Stevenson, president of Aerovonment, president of Aerovonment. “Skyfall is based on this promise, providing detailed, effective data from the air perspective that will not only be used to plan future crew missions, but can also be useful for the planetary scientific community to find evidence that life on Mars has once existed.”
Aerovironment has worked on space laser communication terminals as well as ground phase massif antennas to improve satellite teams and control capabilities. As this competence will turn Six Rotorcraft and landing on Mars, we still need to find out, but we will take root for the project.
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