Gravity Assist: Talking to Ingenuity and Other Space Robots, with Nacer Chahat

Published: April 23, 2021, 2:15 p.m.

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 ...