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Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, Set For Its First Flight on April 19, NASA to Livestream the Event

18 April 2021, 12:20 pm EDT By Mars Ingenuity helicopter  ( Flickr/Kevin Gill ) NASA s highly-anticipated Mars helicopter flight is finally here. The team behind the project spent six years developing Ingenuity, the first aircraft to fly on the Red Planet. Ingenuity s first flight On Monday, Apr. 19, the ultra-lightweight robot will try taking off into Mars sky and if it succeeds, this maneuver will be the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. According to The Verge, Ingenuity is scheduled to take off at 3:30 a.m. EDT or 7:30 GMT on Apr. 19, but its flight controllers are wary. If Ingenuity makes it off the Martian ground, NASA will broadcast a livestream of the first test flight data as it reaches Ingenuity s mission team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory or JPL in California.

Watch NASA s mission control track the first flight on Mars

Watch NASA’s mission control track the first flight on Mars Data from Ingenuity’s first flight attempt will reach NASA early Monday morning Share this story NASA/JPL NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is slated to attempt the first-ever powered flight on another world at 3:30AM ET on Monday. The twin-blade rotorcraft will try to ascend 10 feet above ground and hover in place for 30 seconds while cameras on NASA’s Perseverance rover record the historic attempt from a distance. The four-pound Ingenuity copter landed on Mars February 18th attached to the underbelly of Perseverance, NASA’s latest Mars rover whose main mission is to search for signs of ancient Martian life. Perseverance has set aside time to witness Ingenuity’s flight attempt and report the results back to Earth. Ingenuity’s Monday flight test is the first of five planned within a 31-day window that kicked off last week. If all goes well, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California will start

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