Keith Cooper is a freelance science journalist and editor in the United Kingdom, and has a degree in physics and astrophysics from the University of Manchester.
, the Mars Aerial and Ground Intelligent Explorer, was selected by NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program for phase 1 development in January. This means the team behind MAGGIE — hailing from the, Purdue University and start-up aerospace company CoFlow Jet — will receive funding to further develop the cutting-edge technology needed to possibly make MAGGIE a reality.
MAGGIE's planned capabilities are impressive. For instance, it would be built to reach Mach 0.25 on a fully charged battery. In Mars' fragile, and has been measured to be 879.3 kilometers per hour at ground level. Therefore, Mach 0.25 at MAGGIE's cruising altitude of 1 kilometer is about 210 kph .
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