Mars Science Helicopter
A concept called Mars Science Helicopter, shown in a video at a recent Mars exploration meeting, would fly a 30-kilogram hexacopter capable of traveling up to 10 kilometers per flight and carry five kilograms of science payloads.

With the Ingenuity helicopter continuing to demonstrate its abilities on Mars, NASA engineers are examining concepts for larger, more capable rotorcraft that could be flown on future missions.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...