News Archive / Tagged: Ingenuity
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter logs 25th flight
Cullen DesforgesApril 18th, 2022NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter logged its 25th flight as it works to catch up with the Perseverance rover, which is heading toward an ancient river delta.
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Perseverance rover racing to an ancient Martian river delta
Cullen DesforgesMarch 31st, 2022NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has been racing toward an ancient Martian river delta in recent weeks as it covers ground faster than any pervious rover.
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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completes 15th flight
Cullen DesforgesNovember 13th, 2021NASA’s Mars Helicopter known as Ingenuity has begun to traverse its way back to the famed Wright Brothers Field on the Martian surface after completing its 15th successful flight.
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Mars helicopter tests higher rotor speed on latest flight
Cullen DesforgesNovember 1st, 2021NASA’s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity successfully made its 14th flight, testing a higher rotor speed in anticipation upcoming seasonal changes.
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Ingenuity makes 12th flight from the Martian surface
Matt HaskellAugust 23rd, 2021In yet another milestone, the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity made its 12th flight from the Red Planet’s surface on Aug. 16.
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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter breaks records with 9th flight
Cullen DesforgesJuly 8th, 2021The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter that has proven itself to be the star of the Perseverance mission recently made its ninth and most daring flight to date.
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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completes 7th flight
Cullen DesforgesJune 9th, 2021Fresh off of a recent in-flight anomaly, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has successfully completed its seventh flight across the surface of the red planet.
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NASA releases 3D video of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s 3rd flight
Michael McCabeMay 31st, 2021On April 25, 2021, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter performed its third test flight. Recently, NASA engineers converted a video of the flight into anaglyph 3D.
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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter experiences turbulent sixth flight
Cullen DesforgesMay 27th, 2021After five near-flawless flights, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter ran into trouble during its sixth, testing the margins of the spacecraft’s stability.
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Ingenuity Mars helicopter transitions to “operations demonstration phase”
Cullen DesforgesMay 10th, 2021NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter successfully took to the Martial skies for a fifth time, proving its capabilities as a fully-functioning aircraft.
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After flight 4, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter begins new demo phase
Cullen DesforgesMay 3rd, 2021NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has once again proven itself to be the aeronautic showstopper of 2021 with its fourth flight above the Martian surface, setting the stage for a 30-day "operations demonstration" phase.
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Ingenuity helicopter flies ‘half the length of a football field’
Cullen DesforgesApril 26th, 2021Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California have received data confirming a successful third flight of Ingenuity, its most ambitious yet.
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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies for a second time
Cullen DesforgesApril 22nd, 2021After making history as the first powered aircraft on another planet, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew for a second time, this time even farther and longer.
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‘Wright brothers moment’: Ingenuity takes flight on Mars
Cullen DesforgesApril 19th, 2021With NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, history has been made as humankind made the next great stride in powered flight; the first flight on another planet.
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Software issue delays Ingenuity Mars helicopter’s first flight
Cullen DesforgesApril 14th, 2021History will have to wait a little longer as the first flight of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars has been delayed by at least a week.