Mars Sample Recovery Helicopter

Mars Sample Recovery Helicopter^[1]
Mars Sample Recovery Helicopter
Part of NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return
	Artist's drawing showing one of the Mars Sample Recovery Helicopters collecting Mars 2020 sample tubes from depot while Mars Science Helicopter and Ingenuity are seen flying over Mars
Type	Extraterrestrial autonomous UAV helicopter
Owner	NASA
Manufacturer	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Specifications
Dimensions	131 cm × 49 cm × 52 cm (52 in × 19 in × 20 in)
Dry mass	2.26 kg (5.0 lb)
Power	6 Solar-charged Sony VTC-4 Li ion batteries; typical engine input power: 350 watt
History
Deployed	2030; from Mars Sample Retrieval Lander (SRL) (planned) Maximum speed: 18 km/h (11 mph, 9.7 kn); Range: 0.700 km (0.435 mi, 0.378 nmi); Service ceiling: 20 m (66 ft); Rate of climb: 5.5 m/s (1,080 ft/min); Rate of sink: 1 m/s (200 ft/min); ;
NASA Mars helicopters
	← Ingenuity

The Mars Sample Recovery Helicopters are a pair of robotic unmanned helicopters being developed by the engineers of the American company AeroVironment Inc. and proposed in March 2022 as a means of delivering Martian soil samples from the sample depots made by the Perseverance rover to the location of the Sample Retrieval Lander (SRL) that will load these samples onto the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), which, in accordance with the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return program, will deliver them to low Martian orbit for future return to Earth.^[5]

In January 2024, a related proposed NASA plan had been challenged due to budget and scheduling considerations, and a newer overhaul plan undertaken.^[6]

^ mars.nasa.gov. "Sample Recovery Helicopters – NASA". mars.nasa.gov. Retrieved January 8, 2023.
^ mars.nasa.gov (November 22, 2023). "NASA Uses Two Worlds to Test Future Mars Helicopter Designs". NASA Mars Exploration. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: "Mars Helicopter". Mars.nasa.gov. NASA. Archived from the original on April 16, 2020. Retrieved May 2, 2020.
^ mars.nasa.gov (November 22, 2023). "NASA Uses Two Worlds to Test Future Mars Helicopter Designs". NASA Mars Exploration. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
^ Pipenberg, Benjamin T.; Langberg, Sara A.; Tyler, Jeremy D.; Keennon, Matthew T. (March 2022). "Conceptual Design of a Mars Rotorcraft for Future Sample Fetch Missions". 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO). pp. 01–14. doi:10.1109/AERO53065.2022.9843820. ISBN 978-1-66543-760-8. S2CID 251473077.
^ David, Leopnard (January 15, 2024). "NASA's troubled Mars sample-return mission has scientists seeing red - Projected multibillion-dollar overruns have some calling the agency's plan a 'dumpster fire.'". Space.com. Archived from the original on January 16, 2024. Retrieved January 16, 2024.

[MSRH-1] rs.nasa.gov. "Sample Recovery Helicopters – NASA". mars.nasa.gov. Retrieved January 8, 2023.

[2] rs.nasa.gov (November 22, 2023). "NASA Uses Two Worlds to Test Future Mars Helicopter Designs". NASA Mars Exploration. Retrieved November 30, 2023.

[official_website-3] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: "Mars Helicopter". Mars.nasa.gov. NASA. Archived from the original on April 16, 2020. Retrieved May 2, 2020.

[4] rs.nasa.gov (November 22, 2023). "NASA Uses Two Worlds to Test Future Mars Helicopter Designs". NASA Mars Exploration. Retrieved November 30, 2023.

[5] Pipenberg, Benjamin T.; Langberg, Sara A.; Tyler, Jeremy D.; Keennon, Matthew T. (March 2022). "Conceptual Design of a Mars Rotorcraft for Future Sample Fetch Missions". 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO). pp. 01–14. doi:10.1109/AERO53065.2022.9843820. ISBN 978-1-66543-760-8. S2CID 251473077.

[SPC-20240115-6] David, Leopnard (January 15, 2024). "NASA's troubled Mars sample-return mission has scientists seeing red - Projected multibillion-dollar overruns have some calling the agency's plan a 'dumpster fire.'". Space.com. Archived from the original on January 16, 2024. Retrieved January 16, 2024.

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