The Mars Helicopter aims to make the first powered flight on another planet when it takes off on Mars as part of the Mars 2020 mission. I learned a lot getting to visit the drone right before it was mounted on the rover.

How do you fly in 1% of Earths atmosphere:
Have large rotors (they are 1.2m in diameter) and spin them very fast, around 2500 RPM (5x the speed of a helicopter on Earth).

Plus the aircraft has to be light:
The Mars helicopter weighs in at 1.8kg or around the same as a laptop. Every piece had to be stripped down for weight. Instead of using aerogel for insulation, the craft makes use of CO2 gaps between components. Even aerogel was too heavy!

One of the major challenges is surviving the Martian night:
Temperatures plunge to -80C to -100C so two thirds of the crafts power is actually used to keep its electronics warm. Only one third is used for flying. The estimated flight time is 90 seconds.

The craft cant be driven remotely, it will have to fly autonomously, using its own sensor suite to determine how to fly. The round trip 20 minute delay with Earth means steering the craft from mission control would be impossible.

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Another cool video of DFKI space robots in the desert of morocco: youtu.be/-zqve9baOzM

A barren, rocky desert landscape and not a single soul around – to come as close as possible to the inhospitable conditions on the Red Planet, scientists of the Robotics Innovation Center of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) tested the cooperation of various robot systems in the desert of the American state of Utah from 24 October to 18 November 2016.

The project Field Trials Utah (FT-Utah) is funded by the German Space Agency (DLR Agentur) with federal funds of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in accordance with the parliamentary resolution of the German Parliament, grant no. 50 RA 1621 (DFKI) and 50RA1622 (University of Bremen).

FT-Utah (Project)
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TransTerrA (Project)
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robotik.dfki-bremen.de/en/research/robot-systems/sherpatt.html

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A complete narrated overview of the new Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover. Documentary explains how it is different from all previous rovers. Describes all the new tools, science instruments, and capabilities. Mars helicopter, Range Trigger, Terrain Relative Navigation, MOXIE, RIMFAX, Cache Camera, Sample collection and caching. Female documentary narrator.

This concept animation shows just one of many potential concepts for how the first human landing site on Mars might evolve throughout the course of multiple human expeditions to the Red Planet over a decade or more.

In today’s video, we do an overview of NASAs #PerseveranceRover, also known as #Mars2020, the rocket that will take it there, the timeline, the landing sequence, and then compare it to its older sibling, Curiosity to see what’s changed and what has stayed the same including its instruments and mission!

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00:00 — Intro
02:50 — Launch / Transit Overview
05:30 — Entry / Descent / Landing Timeline
09:00 — Perseverance VS Curiosity
22:00 — JPL Engineer Bobak Ferdowsi
22:45 — Conclusion

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Its been a while since I made a video on the Apollo / KSP subject, but I wanted to redo it, in a more complex and closer to reality way but also in a more cinematic and pleasant to watch video.
By making this video I realized how difficult it is to represent each detail of the mission, while keeping the thing easy to watch and not too long.

It took me about 3 days to do the video with a huge editing work, lots a scenes to shoot in game multiple times, the scenes to redo etc.…
There are a lot of details that are not perfect in this video, thats why I would like you to play a little game!
Tell me in the comment section if you find errors or differences between my video and the real mission. I know there is a lot of space nerds here, We will see if you are good ;)

By the way I want to point out that even if the Apollo 13 soundtrack is well known and used everywhere, is still damn cool. right?
Also, all the radio conversations and audio events are not on the right time scale, for cinematographic purposes.

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The Mars helicopter, ‘Ingenuity’, along with the new rover ‘Perseverance’ are scheduled to land on February 18th 2021. The local time on Mars will be approximately 3.45pm at Jezero Crater. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab have stated the best time to fly Ingenuity is around 11am local time, and flying at night will be strictly forbidden.

Today’s video will feature all you need to know about flying on Mars, how Martian time zones are calculated and why flying at night is a bad idea. We hope you enjoy.

There is one standard time on Mars, developed by astronomers in the 1830’s. It’s called Mars Coordinated Time, or MTC for short. All of the rovers have offset times which correspond to MTC, which is known as the ‘Prime Meridian’.

So why does this matter? Why is it so important that we know the local time on Mars?

Just like on Earth, depending on where the Sun is in the sky, things change. Temperature, visibility, wind speeds, and even the density of the atmosphere.

Firstly, temperature variations on Mars are wild. In the Martian summer near the equator, temperatures can reach a cosy 20 Degrees Celsius. However, during the night temperatures can plummet to -73 Degrees Celsius. At these frosty temperatures, critical mechanisms on board the rovers can fail. For this reason, most Martian landers have built in heating systems, to survive the night time extremes.

This issue is what led to the demise of the Opportunity rover. After experiencing a global Martian dust storm which blocked it’s solar panels, the battery was expended. During the following days and nights, the heating system was unable to power up, meaning the extreme temperatures irreversibly damaged the rover’s internal components.

NASA have avoided this problem in future rovers, using nuclear power in rovers from Curiosity onwards.
The Mars helicopter ‘Ingenuity’, which we are nicknaming as ‘Genie’, has a multitude of other problems to answer. Unfortunately, using nuclear power would be too heavy for flying on Mars, so this craft uses solar.

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The HASSELL design for a Mars Habitat has reached the final 10 of NASA’s 3D Printing Centennial Challenge. This NASA competition sought perspectives from outside the traditional aerospace industry, to explore how a human habitat could be designed and delivered on Mars using autonomous 3D printing technologies. HASSELL partnered with Eckersley O’Callaghan to design the external shell which could be constructed entirely by autonomous robots using Mars’ natural regolith.

Final film has been made in collaboration with the team at LightField London.

A ludicrous expedition to Mars launched with a single 15 kiloton rocket.
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Real Solar System
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Deadly Rentry
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