The Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is an enabling technology demonstration designed to test new flight capabilities on Mars for future missions.

“it's a what we'd call a an enabling technology demonstration for future missions”

Vertical integration of ground infrastructure, including hardware and software, is necessary to achieve mission success and efficiency.

“it really comes down to the vertical integration. And what we mean by that is kind of like what I what I mentioned of being able to stitch together all of the different pieces in the endto-end system so that they inform each other.”