Washington, July 7: NASA’s first flight Prandtl-m, the boomerang shaped aircraft is going to fly to Mars for searching prospective sites for landing. This is done as a sample ground work to the future mission of red planet.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which is a United States agency for civilian space program revealed a prototype named Prandtl-m. This is one of the next generation innovations that scientists from NASA have made. The prototype is the boomerang shaped air craft that is going to fly to the Red Planet.

Officials from NASA says that this is the sample ground work done for searching prospective sites for landing and it lays a path for the future mission to Mars. In the coming days, this flying wing aircraft with a twist plans will be launched from a high altitude balloon of about 100,000 feet. According to Al Bowers, it is said that this would replicate the flying conditions of the Martian atmosphere. The flight time of this will be of around 10 minutes and it will glide during last 2,000 feet to Martian surface.

Al Bowers, NASA Armstrong chief scientist and Prandtl-m programme manager has revealed this info regarding Prandtl-m to media. He also said that this first flight that is to fly on the red planet could validate how aircraft works which eventually will help scientists to necessary modification required to fold.

The prototype will also help to deploy from a 3U CubeSat (miniature satellite (U-class spacecraft) that is used for space research) in the aeroshell of a future Mars rover. A CubeSat is a cube shaped miniature satellite with 10 cm side (1 liter in volume) and weighs at max 1.33 kilograms.