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President Joe Biden stands with a model of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which achieved its first flight on the Red Planet April 19.
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Jose Hernandez joins Fox News Live to discuss NASA s historic feat and Blue Origin s latest successful launch, return.
NASA s helicopter on Mars, the four-pound Ingenuity, failed to get off the ground for its fourth flight Thursday, but NASA said it is safe and will try again Friday.
Previous test flights for the helicopter went well, with Ingenuity rising up 16 feet in the air during the third flight last Sunday then flashing downrange about 50 yards at a speed of 6.6 feet per second.
The second test flight on April 22 and the first flight on April 19 also went as planned.
The cause of Thursday s hiccup was a watchdog timer issue that prevented Ingenuity from transitioning to flight mode.
Chris Davies - Apr 28, 2021, 11:07am CDT
NASA’s Perseverance has been acting as remote camera operator for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s three flights, but the tables were turned on the latest launch when the historic aircraft snapped a shot in return. Though Ingenuity isn’t designed to carry any science experiments – proving the helicopter can fly on Mars is itself the big test – it does have a camera onboard.
David Bailey probably shouldn’t be worried. Ingenuity’s color camera captures at 4208 x 3120 resolution, and is fixed in the fuselage of the helicopter pointed down from the horizon at a roughly 22-degree angle.
NASAâs Ingenuity helicopter on Mars flies faster, farther on third flight
and last updated 2021-04-26 18:56:45-04
NASAâs Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew faster and farther on Sunday than it had in any previous flights or any tests on Earth. The device flew 50 meters, over half the length of a football field, at a top speed of 6.6 feet-per-second, or about 4.5 miles-per-hour.
â(Sundayâs) flight was what we planned for, and yet it was nothing short of amazing,â
said Dave Lavery, the projectâs program executive for Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at NASA Headquarters in Washington. âWith this flight, we are demonstrating critical capabilities that will enable the addition of an aerial dimension to future Mars missions.â