NASA Docks Mars Helicopter Perseverance in Preparation for February 2021 Mission Written 15 April 2020
Artist’s concept of the Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft. | NASA/JPL-Caltech
ExecutiveGov reports that NASA “has docked the Mars helicopter to the Perseverance rover in preparation for the upcoming mission scheduled 10 months from now.” NASA “performed the installation at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility within Kennedy Space Center, NASA’s James Cawley wrote in a blog posted Friday.” NASA “expects the Perseverance rover to arrive on Mars in February 2021, with a launch scheduled for either July or August 2020.
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