Ikhana: NASA Eyes in the Sky

This 3-minute, 8-second video shows how the Ikhana unmanned aircraft system (UAS) played a huge role in providing live video coverage on December 5, 2014, of NASA's Orion spacecraft splashdown and recovery.

Based at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, the Ikhana, which is flown by human pilots in a ground station, is a flying testbed also used for NASA earth science and aeronautics research.