SpaceX Starship SN15 landing
Image above from the SpaceX video of the flight

This amazing vehicle has taken another step forward; it now flies and has landed safely, still using the same manoeuvre to get from horizontal to vertical just before landing.

Here’s the video:

It will be interesting to see what they manage next. It’s going to be a while before they get this into orbit.

Flying the Ingenuity helicopter carried on the NASA Perseverence rover is quite a feat. It has to be done completely autonomously; Mars is currently over half an hour away for round trip radio signals, so remote control is not an option. There’s no GPS to help navigation either!

A pity they couldn’t have tracked it off to the right as well, but at least it came back!

Here’s the mission website: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/