NASA’s X-48 test plane was intended to test the handling qualities and noise of a blended wing body design as part of a ...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.

The past year in aerospace was so full of exciting developments that we had a tough time picking a final five. From the rise ...

NASA Armstrong's new probe flew successfully using a lifting body design, with plans for more ambitious future tests. On ...

The X-59 Quesst, Nasa's supersonic aircraft, has already been designed with a long and narrow build for a quieter "sonic thump". The US space agency is set to test the shock-sensing probe on an F ...

Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars Helicopter, surpassed expectations as the first aircraft to operate on another planet. Despite being designed for five test flights over 30 days, it completed 72 flights across ...

In April 2022, though, the aircraft set an extraplanetary ... In a similar vein, NASA’s otherworldly crash investigation could help future engineers develop the technology the space agency ...

are being used to design more advanced Martian aircraft. “Ingenuity has given us the confidence and data to envision the future of flight at Mars,” Tzanetos said. NASA is already exploring ...

NASA had to do just that after its Ingenuity ... lighter avionics for future aircraft on Mars. "Because Ingenuity was designed to be affordable while demanding huge amounts of computer power ...

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports today that it will publish a technical report on its hard landing on Jan. 18, 2024, making it the first aircraft accident investigation on another planet.