NASA has announced that its Ingenuity Mars helicopter will attempt a second, more complex flight on the red planet on Thursday, April 22. The flight attempt will come just three days after Ingenuity became the first-ever aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another planet. In a tweet on Wednesday, NASA said Ingenuity’s second flight…
The news: NASA has flown an aircraft on another planet for the first time. On Monday, April 19, Ingenuity, a 1.8-kilogram drone helicopter, took off from the surface of Mars, flew up about three meters, then swiveled and hovered for 40 seconds. The historic moment was livestreamed on YouTube, and Ingenuity captured the photo above…
Home News Spaceflight The big day is nearly here for the team behind NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity, who’ve spent six years developing the first aircraft to fly on the Red Planet. On Monday (April 19), the ultra-lightweight robot will try taking off into the Martian sky and if it succeeds, this maneuver will be the first…
Get to the chopper! — This is all experimental, so it’s quite possible that Ingenuity will fail. Eric Berger – Apr 17, 2021 8:10 pm UTC Enlarge / NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter is seen here in a closeup taken by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard the Perseverance rover.NASA/JPL-CaltechNASA has resolved the issues with…
Home News Spaceflight The first helicopter on Mars is once again ready to attempt a historic flight on another world. NASA will attempt the first flight of its Mars helicopter Ingenuity as early as Monday (April 19) after the tiny drone passed a critical test this weekend. The helicopter is targeted to take off at 3:30…
Home News Spaceflight NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter Ingenuity nailed a crucial spin test after the first try ended abruptly, delaying the chopper’s groundbreaking flight attempt.During the test, successfully completed on Friday (April 16), the grounded helicopter spun its blades at the speed required for flight, about 2,400 revolutions per minute. The Ingenuity team is evaluating…
An image of Ingenuity captured on Mars by NASA’s rover, Perseverance. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU By Kellen Beck2021-04-13 20:36:59 UTC You know when you tap an app on your phone and instead of opening, it starts downloading an update? That’s kind of what’s happening with NASA’s helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity. During a pre-flight rotor test on the…
Home News Tech NASA’s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is seen on the surface of the Red Planet by the perseverance rover on April 5, 2021. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU) We’ll have to wait a bit longer to see the first Mars helicopter lift off.NASA had originally aimed to conduct the first Red Planet flight of its Ingenuity…
ScienceNewsAfter a technical hiccup, engineers are hoping the Ingenuity spacecraft will soon become the first vehicle to take flight on another world.ByJay BennettPublished April 12, 2021• 5 min readNASA is nearly ready to attempt the first flight on another planet. The space agency’s small helicopter, called Ingenuity, has been deposited in a flat area on…
By Leah Crane NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter photographed by the Perseverance rover on 5 AprilNASA/JPL-Caltech/ASUThe first drone on another world is ready to fly. The Ingenuity helicopter is primed to lift off from the surface of Mars on 12 April, which will be the first powered flight on another planet. NASA’s Perseverance rover, which launched…