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NASA’s Ingenuity has taken to the sky again but this flight, its sixth, was not the smooth sailing the Mars helicopter has experienced previously. An unexpected problem put the rotocopter at risk, causing it to lurch for a brief wild ride, but it "muscled through it" according to Ingenuity's chief pilot, managing to land within 5 meters (16 feet) of its intended landing zone. During the flight, ingenuity’s navigation system glitched and that led the helicopter to begin tilting back and forth towards the end of its flight. The motion was quite dramatic with oscillation of up to 20 degrees ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech On its ambitious sixth flight, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity encountered an airborne navigation glitch that caused it to tilt back and forth while making unplanned velocity changes, but the small drone-like craft was still able to land safely, mission managers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena said today. The sixth flight of the history-making helicopter — the first to perform controlled flight on another world — was planned as one of its most daring excursions to date. The helicopter was programmed to travel a total of more than 700 feet, demonstrating its aerial ...

By Bill Galluccio May 28, 2021 The helicopter on NASA's Mars rover Perseverance had a scare during its sixth test flight. The Ingenuity helicopter ran into problems shortly after taking off when a navigation error caused it to lose control while it was 33 feet off the ground. Officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the issue occurred when a photo taken from an onboard camera failed to register in the craft's navigation system. That caused a chain reaction, as all subsequent images loaded into the system had an inaccurate time stamp. As a result, the helicopter began to tilt back...

By Bill Galluccio May 28, 2021 The helicopter on NASA's Mars rover Perseverance had a scare during its sixth test flight. The Ingenuity helicopter ran into problems shortly after taking off when a navigation error caused it to lose control while it was 33 feet off the ground. Officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the issue occurred when a photo taken from an onboard camera failed to register in the craft's navigation system. That caused a chain reaction, as all subsequent images loaded into the system had an inaccurate time stamp. As a result, the helicopter began to tilt back...

The helicopter managed to land about 16 feet from its intended touchdown site.