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NASA’s little Mars helicopter has flown its last flight. The space agency announced Thursday that the 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) chopper named Ingenuity can no longer fly because of rotor blade damage.
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Ingenuity, nicknamed Ginny, is an autonomous NASA helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of the Mars 2020 mission. Ingenuity made its first flight on 19 April 2021, demonstrating that flight is possible in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars, and becoming the first aircraft to conduct a powered and controlled extra-terrestrial flight.
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.
Ingenuity helicopter at Wright Brothers Field on Mars before first flight. The NASA helicopter Ingenuity on Mars made the first powered controlled flights by an aircraft on a planet other than Earth. [1] [2] It first flew on April 19, 2021, after landing on February 18 attached to the underside of the Perseverance rover. [3]
A Mil Mi-24 attack helicopter of the Air Force of the Democratic Republic of the Congo crashed in N'Dolo Airport, Barumbu commune, killing all 3 crew members on board. [462] [463] An unidentified helicopter of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps crashed in Zarrin Dasht County, receiving substantial damage and injuring one occupant. [464] [465]
After 10 successful flights on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has now covered more than a mile in the Martian air.Ingenuity's 10th flight on Saturday saw the four-pound drone scouting over an ...