Flying Magazine reports, “After wrapping up its first test and deployment campaign with the U.S. Air Force in January, electric aircraft manufacturer Beta Technologies on Monday said it completed two more real-time demonstrations, dispatching its Alia aircraft with only a few minutes’ notice. The company believes these were the first such deployments for an electric aircraft with major commands of the Air Force.”
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NASA to Launch Two More Mini-Helicopters to Mars to Help Return Samples
The AP reports that NASA “is launching two more mini helicopters to Mars in its effort to return Martian rocks and soil samples to Earth.” Under the plan, “NASA’s Perseverance rover will do double duty and transport the cache to the rocket that will launch them off the red planet a decade from now.” The rover “already has gathered 11 samples with more rock drilling planned.” The most recent sample “holds the greatest promise of containing possible evidence of ancient Martian life, said Arizona State University’s Meenakshi Wadhwa, chief scientist for the retrieval effort.” The planned mini helicopters “will be modeled after NASA’s successful Ingenuity, which has made 29 flights since arriving with Perseverance at Mars early last year.”
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