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NASA re-establishes contact with Mars Ingenuity Helicopter
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The official mission logbook now lists the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's 52nd flight as a success. The trip took place on April 26 but mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California lost communication with the chopper as it dropped towards the surface for lan
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter to begin new demonstration phase
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 1 (ANI): 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 demonstration phase, exploring how aerial scouting and other functions
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter succeeds in historic first flight
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 19 (ANI): Making history in the books of astronomy, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet on Monday.
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NASA to attempt first controlled flight on Mars as soon as Monday
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], April 18 (ANI): NASA is targeting no earlier than Monday, April 19, for the first flight of its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at approximately 03:30 am Eastern Time Zone (EDT).
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NASA's Mars Helicopter to make first flight attempt on Sunday
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 10 (ANI): NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is two days away from making humanity's first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. If all proceeds as planned, the 4-pound (1.8-kg) rotorcraft is expected to take off from Mars' Jezero Cra
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NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity survives its first chilly Martian night
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 6, (ANI): NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has survived its first cold Martian night on its own. The space agency's Perseverance rover, which landed safely in the Jezero Crater on the surface of Mars on February 18, has been carrying the helicopter Ingenuity in its bel
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NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter prepares for first flight
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 24 (ANI): NASA is targeting no earlier than April 8 for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to make the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. Before the 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) rotorcraft can attempt its first flight, however, both it
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Follow the Perseverance Rover in real-time on its way to Mars
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 22 (ANI): The last time we saw NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission was on July 30, 2020, as it disappeared into the black of deep space on a trajectory for Mars. But with NASA's Eyes on the Solar System, you can follow in real-time as humanity's most sophistic
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter recharges its batteries in flight
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
California [US], Aug 14 (ANI): Headed to the Red Planet with the Perseverance rover, the pioneering helicopter is powered up for the first time in interplanetary space as part of a systems check.
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Six things to know about the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
California [USA], July 15 (ANI): When NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida later this summer, an innovative experiment will ride along: the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
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How NASA's Mars helicopter will reach the red planet's surface
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
California [USA], June 24 (ANI): NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will travel with the Perseverance rover through 314 million miles (505 million kilometres) of interplanetary space to get to Mars.
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Alabama High School student names NASA's Mars helicopter
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 29 (ANI): A student from the Albama High School, Vaneeza Rupani named the spacecraft that will attempt NASA's first powered flight on another planet.
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