Collaborate Disseminate
NASA has given the green light for the nuclear-powered Dragonfly rotorcraft to explore Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Approval for the 2028 interplanetary mission comes after years of delay due to COVID-19 and a series of cost overruns.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Dragonfly rotorcraft given green light for mission to Titan
So it turns out that walking around with $4,000 worth of hardware on your head isn’t quite the peak technology experience that some people thought it would be. We’re talking …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 18, 2024
Things may not have gone as planned last week for the flying cellphone on Mars, but just because Ingenuity‘s flying career is over doesn’t mean there’s no more work to …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 4, 2024
Armed with a 300-horsepower, supercharged engine from Kawasaki’s fearsome H2R hyperbike, the K-Racer X1 unmanned helicopter is an absolute beast of a cargo drone, the size of a small car. Watch it lifting a national-record weight in this new video.Cont… Continue reading Kawasaki’s supercharged 1,000cc Ninja-copter drone lifts 440 pounds
There aren’t any organizations other than NASA that can claim they are operating on two different planets (at least none we know of from here on Earth). The space agency is now using that reach to create better helicopter blades on Earth and to push th… Continue reading Better rotors, higher heights thanks to NASA’s dual-planet presence
Huge props to these two helicopter test pilots, who have white-knuckled it through one of the most harrowing experiences in rotorcraft flight – an unpowered autorotation emergency landing – allowing an autonomous system to take the controls.Continue Re… Continue reading World-first automatic safety system lands a helicopter without power
One of the fun aspects of exploring a new planet is that you can set a lot of new records, as is the case with the very first Mars-based helicopter, …read more Continue reading Ingenuity’s 62nd Flight and Attempting a New Speed Record
In some ways, we’ve become a little jaded when it comes to news from Mars, which almost always has to do with the Ingenuity helicopter completing yet another successful flight. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 20, 2023
Good news this week from Mars, where Ingenuity finally managed to check in with its controllers after a long silence. The plucky helicopter went silent just after nailing the landing …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 9, 2023
Patents are the murky waters where technical jargon and legalese meet, and in this vast grey area of interpretation, DJI now owes Textron $279M. At issue in the case were …read more Continue reading Patent Spat Leaves DJI Owing Textron $279M