At first, he built a foam model of the rover ... the main reasons the sky crane concept was shelved when first proposed in 1999. Any horizontal movement of either the drone or the rock exerts ...

“After what were likely valid sightings of possibly hobbyist drones, every aircraft can then become suspicious,” Direen said.

Designing and building remote-controlled drones and “Rover” vehicles may sound like the work of NASA scientists, but this summer, dozens of custom-made vehicles will come to life at the UAB School of ...

A few months after landing, the rover is programmed to lower Ingenuity to the Martian surface, back away, and watch as the tiny drone carries out a series of test flights. If successful ...