The Mars Sample Recovery Helicopters are a pair of robotic unmanned helicopters being developed by the engineers of the American company AeroVironment...

nicknamed Ginny, is an autonomous NASA helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of the Mars 2020 mission. Ingenuity made its first flight...

The NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return is a proposed Flagship-class Mars sample return (MSR) mission to collect Martian rock and soil samples in 43 small, cylindrical...

October 2023[update], he is chief engineer of the Mars Sample Recovery Helicopters, part of the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return campaign. From 2001 to 2006, Grip studied...

seven Mars rovers, and three asteroid rovers that have successfully landed and explored these extraterrestrial surfaces. In addition, a small helicopter on...

Estimating Vehicle for Mars or Device Evaluation Terrain—Mars) were two Soviet Mars rovers that were launched on the unsuccessful Mars 2 and Mars 3 missions in...

A Mars aircraft is a vehicle capable of sustaining powered flight in the atmosphere of Mars. So far, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity is the only aircraft...

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Opportunity, also known as MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover – B) or MER-1, and nicknamed Oppy, is a robotic rover that was active on Mars from 2004 until 2018. Opportunity...

Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover exploring Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. Curiosity was...

2026, a lander with a Mars ascent rocket (developed by NASA) with two sample recovery helicopters lands exactly near the Mars 2020 rover at Three Forks...

sample containers along its route for a potential future Mars sample-return mission. The Mars 2020 mission was announced by NASA on 4 December 2012 at...

NASA sample-return probe that collected a sample of solar wind particles and returned them to Earth for analysis. It was the first NASA sample-return...

developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth...

(12–14 June 2012). OSIRIS-REx II to Mars – Mars sample return from Phobos and Deimos (PDF). Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration. Houston, Texas....

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was awarded a NASA contract to explore new concepts for a sample return from the surface of Mars. In October 2018, the company revealed their new manufacturing...

2018, completed Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, launched July 2020, operational – Mars rover exploring Jezero Crater Ingenuity helicopter, launched July...

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and sample return. As of December 2019, the plan is for two launches to be conducted during the November 2028 Earth-to-Mars launch window: a sample collection...

– MoonViews". MoonViews – Official website of the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP). August 23, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2025. Brand, Stewart...

robotic Sojourner rover reached Mars on July 4, 1997 as part of the Mars Pathfinder mission. Sojourner was operational on Mars for 92 sols (95 Earth days)...

helicopters of HS-4, a unit which specialized in recovery of Apollo spacecraft, specialized divers of UDT Detachment Apollo, a 35-man NASA recovery team...

for 2013 NASA Mars Orbiter – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory". NASA. Retrieved 30 November 2012. "Robotic Exploration of Mars: ExoMars Orbiter and EDM...

collect dust samples from the coma of comet Wild 2, as well as samples of cosmic dust, and return them to Earth for analysis. It was the first sample return...

film Capricorn One portrayed a fictional NASA attempt to fake a landing on Mars. There is a humorous and ribald urban legend that when Armstrong was a child...

objects of scientific interest, recovery of instrumentation and samples Search and recovery diving is also frequently undertaken as part of recreational...

of two landings on Mars in 1976. Follow-on missions would not be launched until 1996, with the Mars Global Surveyor orbiter and Mars Pathfinder, deploying...

redirecting an asteroid on a trajectory to collide with Earth. On Mars, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter concluded operations in January after completing 72 flights...

them into the life raft. The astronauts were winched on board the recovery helicopter, and flown to the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, where they spent the...