Season 5, Episode 2: Talking to Ingenuity and Other Space Robots
23 Apr 2021, 18:15 GMT
Source URL: https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/gravity-assist/gravity-assist-talking-to-ingenuity-and-other-space-robots-with-nacer-chahat/
The Ingenuity helicopter made history on April 19, 2021, with the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. How do engineers talk to a helicopter all the way out on Mars? How about other spacecraft? We’ll hear about it from Nacer Chahat of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...