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The most awaited moment by NASA has come, after so many trials and unsuccessful attempts to fly the Mars helicopter, today NASA will make another attempt to fly the Ingenuity helicopter.
NASA is optimistic that today the helicopter will take off from the Martian land at 12:31 am PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) which will be 1:01 pm according to IST (Indian Standard Time) in India.
NASA in a press release said that data from the first flight will return to Earth a few hours following the autonomous flight. A live stream will begin at 6:15 am EDT, as the helicopter team prepares to receive the data downlink in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA`s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
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This Nasa photo obtained on March 31, 2021 shows Nasa’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter as it extends vertically into place after being rotated outward from its horizontal position on the belly of the Perseverance rover on March 29, 2021. AFP pic
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WASHINGTON, April 19 Nasa is hoping to make history early today when the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter attempts the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.
The space agency had originally planned the flight for April 11 but postponed it over a software issue that was identified during a planned high-speed test of the aircraft’s rotors.
Early Monday, NASA confirmed that its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter had become the first craft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.
Xinhua | Updated: 2021-04-19 09:47 Share CLOSE Image taken by cameras aboard NASA s Perseverance rover on Mars, April 5, 2021 shows Mars helicopter Ingenuity. XINHUA
WASHINGTON NASA is targeting early Monday for the first flight of its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, according to NASA.
The helicopter is scheduled to lift off at approximately 3:30 a.m. Eastern Day Time on Monday.
It will be the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.
The first flight was originally scheduled on April 11, but the date shifted as engineers worked on preflight checks and a solution to a command sequence issue.
Ingenuity arrived at Mars Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, attached to the belly of NASA s Perseverance rover. The helicopter is a technology demonstration with a planned test flight duration of up to 30 Martian days.