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Practicing for Safe Landings on the Moon and Beyond

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A remotely piloted drone with four rotors carries a guidance and navigation experiment through flight maneuvers.
A remotely piloted drone with four rotors carries a guidance and navigation experiment through flight maneuvers.

In this Aug. 27, 2026, image, an Alta-X drone flies an advanced guidance and navigation system known as the Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) experiment near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston developed SPLICE, which successfully completed simulated lunar descent and […]

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