News Archive / Tagged: Ingenuity

• NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter logs 25th flight

  Cullen DesforgesApril 18th, 2022

  NASA’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.

• Perseverance rover racing to an ancient Martian river delta

  Cullen DesforgesMarch 31st, 2022

  NASA’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.

• Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completes 15th flight

  Cullen DesforgesNovember 13th, 2021

  NASA’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.

• Mars helicopter tests higher rotor speed on latest flight

  Cullen DesforgesNovember 1st, 2021

  NASA’s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity successfully made its 14th flight, testing a higher rotor speed in anticipation upcoming seasonal changes.

• Ingenuity makes 12th flight from the Martian surface

  Matt HaskellAugust 23rd, 2021

  In yet another milestone, the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity made its 12th flight from the Red Planet’s surface on Aug. 16.

• Ingenuity Mars Helicopter breaks records with 9th flight

  Cullen DesforgesJuly 8th, 2021

  The 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.

• Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completes 7th flight

  Cullen DesforgesJune 9th, 2021

  Fresh off of a recent in-flight anomaly, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has successfully completed its seventh flight across the surface of the red planet.

• NASA releases 3D video of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s 3rd flight

  Michael McCabeMay 31st, 2021

  On April 25, 2021, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter performed its third test flight. Recently, NASA engineers converted a video of the flight into anaglyph 3D.

• Ingenuity Mars Helicopter experiences turbulent sixth flight

  Cullen DesforgesMay 27th, 2021

  After five near-flawless flights, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter ran into trouble during its sixth, testing the margins of the spacecraft’s stability.

• Ingenuity Mars helicopter transitions to “operations demonstration phase”

  Cullen DesforgesMay 10th, 2021

  NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter successfully took to the Martial skies for a fifth time, proving its capabilities as a fully-functioning aircraft.

• After flight 4, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter begins new demo phase

  Cullen DesforgesMay 3rd, 2021

  NASA'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.

• Ingenuity helicopter flies ‘half the length of a football field’

  Cullen DesforgesApril 26th, 2021

  Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California have received data confirming a successful third flight of Ingenuity, its most ambitious yet.

• Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies for a second time

  Cullen DesforgesApril 22nd, 2021

  After 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.

• ‘Wright brothers moment’: Ingenuity takes flight on Mars

  Cullen DesforgesApril 19th, 2021

  With 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.

• Software issue delays Ingenuity Mars helicopter’s first flight

  Cullen DesforgesApril 14th, 2021

  History 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.