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NASA successfully flies helicopter on Mars in 1st powered flight on another planet A tiny helicopter is making huge history. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter rose from the surface of Mars and hovered in the red planet’s thin air for a brief but extraordinary hop early Monday, marking the first powered flight on another planet. The $85 million helicopter demo, which NASA officials described as a “Wright Brothers moment,” was a pre-programmed flight run by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. When the small robotic aircraft lift off the surface, JPL’s operations center filled ...

NASA had been aiming for a 40-second flight, and while details were initially sparse, the craft hit all its targets: spin-up, takeoff, hover, descent and landing. To accomplish all that, the helicopter’s twin, counter-rotating rotor blades needed to spin at 2,500 revolutions per minute — five times faster than on Earth. With an atmosphere just 1 percent the thickness of Earth’s, engineers had to build a helicopter light enough — with blades spinning fast enough — to generate this otherworldy lift. At the same time, it had to be sturdy enough to withstand the Martian wind and extreme...

WATCH: NASA shares images of first successful helicopter flight on Mars Ground controllers had to wait more than three excruciating hours before learning whether the pre-programmed flight was a success. Author: MARCIA DUNN (AP Aerospace Writer) Published: 5:32 AM EDT April 19, 2021 Updated: 8:57 AM EDT April 19, 2021 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another planet. The triumph was hailed a...

NASA has completed the first controlled flight on another planet following the lift-off of its Mars helicopter-drone, Ingenuity.The agency announced t

NASA shares images of first successful controlled helicopter flight on Mars Ground controllers had to wait more than three excruciating hours before learning whether the pre-programmed flight was a success. Credit: NASA A dream takes flight: The Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter has flown in the thin atmosphere of the Red Planet Author: MARCIA DUNN (AP Aerospace Writer) Published: 4:32 AM CDT April 19, 2021 Updated: 7:57 AM CDT April 19, 2021 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red s...