The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and FAA oversee investigations of aircraft accidents in U.S. airspace. But what happens when a crash occurs hundreds of millions of miles away in outer ...
US space agency NASA is laying claim to the first ever aircraft accident investigation conducted on another planet. NASA says engineers from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are ...
TL;DR: NASA has confirmed that Ingenuity, the Martian helicopter, will not fly again but will still serve a purpose. It was in January this year that NASA announced its helicopter living on the ...
"She still has one final gift for us, which is that she's now going to continue on as a weather station of sorts." But after conducting the "first aircraft investigation on another world," Ingenuity's ...
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity on Mars. It will sit forever on the apex of a sand ripple in Jezero Crater on Mars. Ingenuity, NASA’s name for its Mars Helicopter, achieved the first powered flight on ...
This image of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument of the Perseverance rover on June 15, 2021, the 114th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The location, "Airfield ...
The NTSB is tackling the high rate of general aviation loss-of-control accidents, which constitute 40% of fatal incidents, through a forum exploring human, hardware, training, and technological ...