ESA has awarded SENER Aeroespacial the AERIAL project to design an unmanned aerial vehicle (or drone) prototype capable of flying in the low density, pressure and temperature of the Martian atmosphere. The drone, which SENER Aeroespacial is developing with Aerdron, will be designed to take off from a platform on the rover, fly around to a range of one kilometer and land back on the rover. The rover would swap out and charge the battery.
SENER Aeroespacial and Aerdron to develop a drone for Mars
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