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 ...

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 ...
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NASA pushes next-gen Mars helicopter rotors through the sound barrier

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, have demonstrated that the blades of their ...
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NASA's new images reveal what happened to its crashed Mars helicopter

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on the Martian desert floor. The craft made over 70 successful flights on Mars. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / LANL / CNES / IRAP / Simeon Schmauß Mars is hard, even for ...