More range than a rover
Rocket Jones is spreading the news about the Mars airplane that is under development by Aurora Flight Sciences:
An exploration vehicle like this would vastly expand our ability to explore Mars. Rather than being limited to a very small area near the landing site, we would be able to cover hundreds of square miles at close range. A very cool thing, indeed.
[wik] And yes, I was too lazy to make up my own clever title.
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The guys at Aurora do some
The guys at Aurora do some amazing work, including parts of the Predator UAV and extreme high altitude craft for NASA and the weather service.
The owners daughter was the Junior National Champion in contest rocketry a few years ago. She built a scale Soviet N-1 that was incredible. It runs in the family.
Did it fly better than the
Did it fly better than the original? I hope no one was hurt.
It was only about 3 feet tall
It was only about 3 feet tall. But no, it flew exactly like the original, falling apart in mid-flight. An hour and lord-knows-how-much superglue later, a second, marginally successful flight was made. Good enough to win, but a beautiful model was destroyed.