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

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

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

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

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 ...

"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." ...

American defense contractor AeroVironment presented the Skyfall, a concept for dropping six exploration helicopters on the ...

AeroVironment, in collaboration with NASA, introduced a new Mars helicopter for exploration, Skyfall. The concept involved a ...

Defense tech company AeroVironment and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have shown off a wild concept for deploying six ...