By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, for the Dallas Morning News Across the nation, Americans innovate every day. But innovation and ingenuity do not occur only in our national labs, universities […]
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It has been a week of heightened apprehension on the Mars Helicopter team as we prepared a major flight challenge for Ingenuity. We uplinked instructions for the flight, which occurred […]
Space Foundation Selects NASA JPL Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flight Team To Receive 2021 John L. ’Jack’ Swigert Jr. Award for Space Exploration
Space Foundation, a nonprofit advocate organization founded in 1983 for the global space ecosystem, is proud to announce the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Mars Ingenuity Flight Team as the […]
Surviving An In-Flight Anomaly: What Happened On Ingenuity’s Sixth Flight
On the 91st Martian day, or sol, of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter performed its sixth flight. The flight was designed to expand the flight […]
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes First One-Way Trip
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completed its fifth flight on the Red Planet today with its first one-way journey from Wright Brothers Field to an airfield 423 feet (129 meters) to […]
Ingenuity shifts from technology to operations demo after successful fourth flight
With four flights now complete, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter will transition from being strictly a technology demonstration to a test of its ability to work in cooperation with the Perseverance rover.
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to Begin New Demonstration Phase
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has a new mission. Having proven that powered, controlled flight is possible on the Red Planet, the Ingenuity experiment will soon embark on a new operations […]
REVISED TIME: NASA Sets Briefing to Discuss Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Next Steps
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team will discuss plans for the rotorcraft’s remaining flight campaign during a virtual media briefing at 11:30 a.m. EDT (8:30 a.m. PDT) Friday, April 30. The […]
With Goals Met, NASA to Push Envelope with Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
Now that NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has accomplished the goal of achieving powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on the Red Planet, and with data from its most recent flight test, […]
NASA Sets Briefing to Discuss Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Next Steps
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team will discuss plans for the rotorcraft’s remaining flight campaign during a virtual media briefing at 12:30 p.m. EDT (9:30 a.m. PDT) Friday, April 30. The […]