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NASA's Mars Helicopter Passes Critical Flight Tests

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According to a report by Gizmodo, NASA will reportedly be sending a rotary-wing aircraft to Mars, and as recently concluded flight tests have shown, this tiny helicopter is ready to become the first to fly above the surface of an alien world. In July of 2020, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station en route to Mars carrying the tiny, four-pound helicopter. Gizmodo reports that engineers at the Mars Helicopter project at JPL in Pasadena, California, have reached an important developmental milestone, in which a model of the helicopter was put through a series of critical flight tests, and reportedly achieved controlled and sustained flight in simulated Martian conditions.

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