NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Again After Premature Landing
The helicopter performed a short hop to help the team better understand why its previous flight was interrupted. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter successfully completed its…
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter News
Communications Blackout Over: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Finally Phones Home
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter successfully completed its 52nd flight, despite communication dropouts due to challenging Martian terrain. Contact with the helicopter was re-established on June…
Ingenuity Soars: NASA’s Mars Helicopter Aces 50th Flight – “We Are Not in Martian Kansas Anymore”
The history-making rotorcraft has recently been negotiating some of the most hazardous terrain it’s encountered on the Red Planet. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter marked its…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes First Flight With New Navigation Software
Compared to some of the other flights this past year, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s Flight 34 might not stand out. Wednesday’s successful 18-second flight was even…
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Spots Foreign Object Debris on Mars
Footage from the Mars helicopter’s navigation camera reveals a small piece of foreign object debris (FOD). During a portion of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter’s 33rd…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Goes on Vacation
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Postpones Flights Until August It’s now dust season and winter in the area on Mars where NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is located….
Piloting NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter With a Dead Sensor
The Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, is a technology experiment that achieved the first powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet. It rode to Mars in the…
Risky Winter on Mars: Each Sol Could Be Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s Last
Although NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has defied expectations, proved that powered, controlled flight of an aircraft was possible on Mars, and has been an incredible…
Watch the Dramatic Video of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s Record-Breaking Flight
Farther and Faster Than Ever Before Imagery has come down from Mars capturing a recent flight in which the NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew farther…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in Contact With Perseverance Rover After Communications Dropout
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) mission controllers received confirmation on Thursday, May 5, 2022, that the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter had re-established communications with the…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Scouts Ridgeline for Perseverance Science Team
The rotorcraft provided rover scientists an aerial perspective of an interesting rocky outcrop. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed an intriguing ridgeline near the ancient…
NASA Ingenuity Helicopter Spots Spacecraft Wreckage on Mars – Perseverance’s Cone-Shaped Backshell
Eyeing some of the components that enabled the Perseverance rover to get safely to the Martian surface could provide valuable insights for future missions. NASA’s…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter: Balancing Risks in the “Séítah” Region
Ingenuity continued its journey towards the river delta at the beginning of this month with Flight 24. This flight took place Sunday, April 3, and…
Defying Expectations: NASA’s Pioneering Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Awarded Prestigious Collier Trophy
The first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another planet has garnered an award whose past recipients make up a timeline of aerospace innovation…
Mars Report: NASA Extends Ingenuity Helicopter Mission
With its recent 21st flight complete, the Red Planet rotorcraft is on its way to setting more records during its second year of operations. NASA…
NASA Ingenuity Mar Helicopter: After Dusty Flight 19, Team Prepares for Flight 20
The Ingenuity team is beginning preparations for Flight 20! Flight 19 was successfully completed on February 7, 2022, at 20:21 PST (Sol 345 of the…
Glowing Helicopters on Mars?
If the Ingenuity helicopter would fly at night on Mars, its very possible the whirring rotors would create enough static electricity in the extremely dry…
NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Grounded: First Flight Delay Due to Inclement Weather on Another World
Flight 19 for NASA’s Ingenuity is scheduled to take place no earlier than Sunday, January 23, 2022. The atmosphere of Mars is much less dense…
