NASA’s new Mars helicopter rotors survived supersonic testing, boosting lift by 30% and paving the way for heavier, more capable aerial explorers on the Red Planet. NASA engineers have successfully pushed helicopter rotor blades past the speed of sound during tests designed to support future Mars missions. The experiments, conducted in March at NASA’s Jet [...]
NASA announced that its new helicopter rotors to Mars exceeded the sound barrier during tests conducted in March at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. Experiments have shown...