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Why send one copter to Mars when you can send six?
Hoping to push Mars exploration into top gear and do recon for a future crewed landing, AeroVironment has released its concept for a mission consisting of half a dozen autonomous helicopters that would land on the Red Planet under their own power.
But AeroVironment in connection with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California wants to go not one, but six better by sending a flock of helicopters to Mars on a mission called Skyfall. The idea is to place six helicopters built along the lines of Ingenuity into a capsule made of an aeroshell with a heat shield to protect them as they hit the Martian atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. With six helicopters, Skyfall offers a low-cost solution that multiplies the range we would cover, the data we would collect, and the scientific research we would conduct–making humanity’s first footprints on Mars meaningfully closer."
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