NASA s Mars Copter Flight Could Happen As Soon As Monday NASA s Mars Copter Flight Could Happen As Soon As Monday The mini-helicopter s trip will mark the first-ever powered, controlled flight on another planet, and will help NASA reap invaluable data about the conditions on Mars.
NASA s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter could make its first flight over the Red Planet on Monday.
Washington, United States:
NASA s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter could make its first flight over the Red Planet as soon as Monday, the US space agency reported, following a delay of more than a week due to a possible technical issue.
The mini-helicopter s trip will mark the first-ever powered, controlled flight on another planet, and will help NASA reap invaluable data about the conditions on Mars.
/PRNewswire/ NASA is targeting no earlier than Monday, April 19, for the first flight of its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at approximately 3:30 a.m. EDT (12:30.
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455 NASA said that Ingenuity continues to be healthy on the surface on Mars and critical functions such as power, communications, and thermal control are stable. (NASA)
Washington, April 14
NASA has again decided to delay the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter s first experimental flight due to technical concerns.
The US space agency, which is yet to declare a new date for the attempt, earlier rescheduled the flight after a test completed earlier than planned.
The Ingenuity team has now identified a software solution for the command sequence issue identified during a planned high-speed spin-up test of the helicopter s rotors. Over the weekend, the team considered and tested multiple potential solutions to this issue, concluding that minor modification and reinstallation of Ingenuity s flight control software is the most robust path forward, NASA said in a statement this week.