Note: Dates based on Pacific time zone at the time of Ingenuity's flight. RDARS to Deploy Its Drone Eagle Watch Platforms at the Eden Gardens Resort Construction Site in Orlando, Florida. MiMi Aung, Mars Helicopter Project Manager Taking Flight: How Girls Can Grow Up to be Engineers News Briefing: Preview First Mars Helicopter Flights Mars Helicopter Live Q&A: One Step Closer to First Flight Month of Ingenuity - Helicopter Flight Preview News Briefing: Mars Helicopter Pre-FlightĬhannels that carried the broadcast include:Įxperts Discuss NASA's Mars Helicopter - Talk for Students Samantha Hatch, human resources specialist Nagin Cox, engineering operations deputy team chief With its tech demo complete, Ingenuity transitions to a new operations demonstration phase to explore how future rovers and aerial explorers can work together. After that, the helicopter successfully performed additional experimental flights of incrementally farther distance and greater altitude. It was a major milestone: the very first powered, controlled flight in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars, and, in fact, the first such flight in any world beyond Earth. For the first flight on April 19, 2021, Ingenuity took off, climbed to about 10 feet (3 meters) above the ground, hovered in the air briefly, completed a turn, and then landed. The helicopter completed its technology demonstration after three successful flights.
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Once the rover reached a suitable "airfield" location, it released Ingenuity to the surface so it could perform a series of test flights over a 30-Martian-day experimental window. It hitched a ride to Mars on the Perseverance rover. The Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, is a technology demonstration to test powered, controlled flight on another world for the first time.
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