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NASA highlights small-aircraft tests for safer space landings
NASA has described how its Armstrong flight laboratory uses scaled aircraft and drones to test aerospace technologies before larger missions.
Its 16 September report includes a drone carrying the SPLICE guidance and navigation experiment, intended to support precise landings and hazard avoidance. The work is testing equipment for future missions; it is not a report of a new landing on the Moon or Mars.
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