NASA's Pioneering Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Awarded Collier Trophy
The first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another planet has garnered an award whose past recipients make up ...
Tag: Mars Helicopter
Mars helicopter Ingenuity completes 22nd flight
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity completed its 22nd flight over the weekend, the space agency announced. "The trip lasted 101.4 seconds ...
NASA extends Ingenuity Helicopter Mission
NASA has extended flight operations of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter through September. In the months ahead, history's first aircraft to ...
Grounded: First Flight Delay Due to Inclement Weather on Another World
The atmosphere of Mars is much less dense than Earth's; however, the Mars climate shares many similarities to Earth: seasons, ...
Flight 19 – New Year, Same Ingenuity
The next flight on Mars marks the first of 2022 and the nineteenth for NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. The current ...
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Reaches a Total of 30 Minutes Aloft
The 17th flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on Dec. 5 pushed the total flight time past the 30-minute mark. ...
Mars helicopter to sit dormant until radio contact restored
NASA's Mars helicopter may have to wait days to overcome a blocked radio signal caused by hills between it and ...
Mars helicopter flies again; encounters radio interference on 17th flight
Ingenuity flew for the 17th time at Mars on Sunday, Dec. 5. After the helicopter executed the planned 614-foot (187-meter) ...
Ingenuity heading north into Seitah for Flight 17
With Flight 17, Ingenuity continues its journey back to Wright Brothers Field at the Octavia E. Butler landing site. Flight ...
NASA's Perseverance captures challenging flight by Mars Helicopter
Video footage from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's 13th flight on Sept. 4 provides the most ...