NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter will attempt to take flight on the Red Planet early Monday morning, and you’ll be able to watch live as the NASA team tracks this historic test from mission control.
NASA Space Helicopter Ready For First Mars Flight NASA Space Helicopter Ready For First Mars Flight The helicopter is good, it s looking healthy, said Tim Canham, Ingenuity operations lead, in a press conference.
This NASA photo shows NASA s Ingenuity helicopter unlocking its rotor blades.
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The helicopter that NASA has placed on Mars could make its first flight over the Red Planet within two days after a successful initial test of its rotors, the US space agency said Friday.
The current plan for the first-ever attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet is for the four-pound (1.8 kilogram) helicopter, dubbed the Ingenuity, to take off from Mars Jezero Crater on Sunday at 10:54 pm US eastern time (0254 GMT Monday) and hover 10 feet (3 meters) above the surface for a half-minute, NASA said.
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WASHINGTON, April 10, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – The helicopter that NASA has placed on Mars could make its first flight over the Red Planet within two days after a successful initial test of its rotors, the US space agency said Friday.
The current plan for the first-ever attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet is for the four-pound (1.8 kilogram) helicopter, dubbed the Ingenuity, to take off from Mars’ Jezero Crater on Sunday at 10:54 pm US eastern time (0254 GMT Monday) and hover 10 feet (3 meters) above the surface for a half-minute, NASA said.
“The helicopter is good, it’s looking healthy,” said Tim Canham, Ingenuity operations lead, in a press conference.
NASA Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Ready for First Flight
The 1.8kg helicopter, dubbed the Ingenuity, will be used for the first-ever attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet. By Agence France-Presse | Updated: 10 April 2021 17:33 IST
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It will attempt its first flight on the Red Planet on Sunday
This will be the first attempt a controlled flight on another planet
NASA helicopter placed on Mars could make its first flight over the Red Planet within two days after a successful initial test of its rotors, the US space agency said Friday. The current plan for the first-ever attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet is for the four-pound (1.8kg) helicopter, dubbed the Ingenuity, to take off from Mars Jezero Crater on Sunday at 10:54pm US Eastern Time (8:24 am IST) and hover 10 feet (3 metres) above the surface for a half-minute, NASA said.
NASA is preparing to fly the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, in an otherworldly Wright brothers moment Christian Davenport
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They landed a car-size rover on Mars, and the brilliant, if cheeky, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory even snuck a coded message into the parachute used to slow it down for a soft landing that read, “Dare Mighty Things.”
Now comes what the space agency says will be a “Wright brothers” moment on Mars: the first powered flight of an aircraft on another planet.
It won’t fly far, just to the height of a basketball rim and down, a short hop that should take about 40 seconds. But the autonomous flight of a tiny helicopter called Ingenuity, perhaps as early as Sunday, would mark a first in interplanetary travel, demonstrate a new technology and pave the way for scientists and explorers to more quickly traverse the surface of the Red Planet.