Season 5, Episode 2: Talking to Ingenuity and Other Space Robots
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\u2019ll hear about it from Nacer Chahat of NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...