NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity could keep flying the Martian skies for months

The future of aerial Mars exploration looks bright. NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity, which landed inside Mars’ Jezero Crater with the agency’s Perseverance rover in February,  has now completed eight Red Planet flights. That’s three more than the maximum targeted for the 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper’s original technology-demonstration mission — and Ingenuity isn’t done yet. The little rotorcraft’s current…

Space Readiness Level

With our entity ECSEC we set up a parameter called Space Readiness Level (SRL): it can be assigned to the traditional companies which want to enter Space sector. SRL is supplied with a coding which can be applied specifically also to the exploration of Moon, Mars or other Solar System bodies.