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NASA successfully flies helicopter on Mars in 1st powered flight on another planet A tiny helicopter is making huge history. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter rose from the surface of Mars and hovered in the red planet’s thin air for a brief but extraordinary hop early Monday, marking the first powered flight on another planet. The $85 million helicopter demo, which NASA officials described as a “Wright Brothers moment,” was a pre-programmed flight run by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. When the small robotic aircraft lift off the surface, JPL’s operations center filled with cheers and applause. “Altimeter data confirms that Ingenuity has performed its first flight, the first flight of a powered aircraft on another planet,” the helicopter’s chief pilot back on Earth, Havard Grip, announced to the crew just before 7 a.m., Eastern time. ....
NASA had been aiming for a 40-second flight, and while details were initially sparse, the craft hit all its targets: spin-up, takeoff, hover, descent and landing. To accomplish all that, the helicopter’s twin, counter-rotating rotor blades needed to spin at 2,500 revolutions per minute five times faster than on Earth. With an atmosphere just 1 percent the thickness of Earth’s, engineers had to build a helicopter light enough with blades spinning fast enough to generate this otherworldy lift. At the same time, it had to be sturdy enough to withstand the Martian wind and extreme cold. In this image from NASA, NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter Ingenuity lands on the surface of Mars Monday, April 19, 2021. The little 4-pound helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the thin Martian air Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. (NASA via AP) ....
WATCH: NASA shares images of first successful helicopter flight on Mars Ground controllers had to wait more than three excruciating hours before learning whether the pre-programmed flight was a success. Author: MARCIA DUNN (AP Aerospace Writer) Published: 5:32 AM EDT April 19, 2021 Updated: 8:57 AM EDT April 19, 2021 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another planet. The triumph was hailed as a Wright Brothers moment. The mini 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) copter even carried a bit of wing fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, which made similar history at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. ....
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