Three tools on the Perseverance Rover, SuperCam, the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer and PIXL, use Exxelia components.
Perseverance Rover successfully cores first rock on Mars
Perseverance’s Sampling and Caching System uses a rotary-percussive drill and a hollow coring bit at the end of its 7-foot-long robotic arm to extract samples slightly thicker than a pencil.
Mars Ingenuity helicopter successfully completes 11th flight
Mars Ingenuity helicopter makes eleventh flight and continues to successfully scout terrain for Perseverance rover.
Open-source software powers Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
Created at NASA’s JPL, the open-source flight software called F Prime powered humanity’s first interplanetary helicopter.
NASA Mars Perseverance completes first Autonav drive
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover completed its first drive using its auto-navigation feature, which allows it to avoid rocks and other hazards without input from engineers back on Earth.
How Ingenuity Helicopter performs state estimation and localization
NASA is eager to share the technical details of its accomplishments, unlike the typical commercial robotics venture trying to outpace its competitors.
Hear the first sounds of Ingenuity flying on Mars
Perseverance Rover captured audio of the Ingenuity flying on Mars, adding another new dimension to the historic Mars 2020 Mission.
Ingenuity Helicopter prepping for new demo phase on Mars
Ingenuity could soon embark on a new operation, exploring how aerial scouting could benefit future exploration of Mars and other worlds.
Ingenuity Helicopter flies faster, farther on 3rd Mars flight
Ingenuity flew faster and farther than any tests that took place here on Earth.
Ingenuity Helicopter completes trickier second flight on Mars
Ingenuity climbed to 16 feet, made a slight tilt, moved sideways, and flew for 51.9 seconds.
How Perseverance Rover made oxygen on Mars
A toaster-size, experimental instrument aboard Perseverance called MOXIE converted some of Mars’ carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen.
Watch: Ingenuity Helicopter completes historic first flight on Mars
Ingenuity Helicopter became the first aircraft to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.
Ingenuity Helicopter needs a software update before first flight
Update will modify the process by which two flight controllers boot up, allowing the hardware and software to safely transition to the flight state.
First flight attempt for Ingenuity Helicopter delayed
During a high-speed test of the rotors, the command sequence controlling the test ended early due to a “watchdog” timer expiration.
Ingenuity Helicopter touched down on Mars
NASA is one step closer to achieving the first flight on another planet as the Ingenuity Helicopter touched down on Mars over the weekend.
NASA preparing for Ingenuity Helicopter launch on Mars
NASA is targeting no earlier than April 8 for the launch of Ingenuity on Mars . But before that happens, it must hit a series of milestones.
Agribotics with Suma Reddy; space lasers; truth about Tesla FSD
Suma Reddy, CEO of agriculture robotics startup Future Acres, joins us to discuss the future of agtech automation.
5 challenges a motor has to overcome on Mars
Outer space is unforgiving. This is why precision drives embarking on a trip to other planets need to meet extremely high quality standards. Every Mars drive from maxon is based on a catalog product and is modified for the specific mission. That’s because the DC motors, gearheads, and encoders face brutal conditions during liftoff, the…
The people behind the Mars drives
Years of collaboration between maxon and the space experts at JPL led to the development of the BLDC motors which handle the valuable soil samples on Mars during the Perseverance mission. Meet maxon’s specialists behind those actuators and find out what drives them. Was there once life on Mars? To answer this question, NASA has…
Precision drives on the Red Planet
More than 100 electric motors from maxon have been used on the Red Planet and have withstood cosmic radiation, dust storms, and temperature fluctuations. With the Perseverance rover, precision drives are once again flying to Mars. The key to success is the same as before: standard industrial products. Mars missions without maxon drive systems? Unthinkable!…
Watch the first ever video of a NASA rover landing on Mars
NASA today released incredible footage of the Mars Perseverance Rover‘s final descent and landing on Mars. This is the first ever video of a NASA rover landing on Mars. You can watch the footage in the video above. A microphone on the rover also has provided the first audio recording of sounds from Mars. Five…
Q&A: Ingenuity Mars Helicopter chief engineer Bob Balaram
Balaram described what it took to develop the helicopter and what to expect on Mars.