Hoping to push Mars exploration into top gear and do recon for a future crewed landing, AeroVironment has released its ...

The Skyfall concept reimagines Mars landings, deploying a six-helicopter swarm to autonomously scout for resources and future ...

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

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

The “Skyfall maneuver” is the core innovation of the Skyfall mission. Instead of relying on a standard, costly, and complex ...

The mission, called Skyfall, would use a capsule to drop down towards the Martian surface, open up before it impacts, and out ...

The investigation into the Mars helicopter Ingenuity accident has found that the "lack of surface texture gave the navigation ...

A slick trailer shows how NASA could five-up itself if the successor to Ingenuity is a whole batch of little sisters.

Today, AeroVironment, Inc. ("AV") (NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in intelligent, multi-domain autonomous systems, revealed ...

"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." ...

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

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 ...