Goodbye little Mars helicopter
A 1.8kg Nasa helicopter that ran an unprecedented six dozen flights on Mars will fly no more, the US space agency said Thursday.
During Ingenuity’s most recent flight, on Jan. 18, one of the helicopter’s blades might have struck the ground while coming in for...
Ingenuity Mars helicopter survives comms blackout
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) re-established communications with its Ingenuity Mars helicopter after six days of no contact.
The team's chief engineer Travis Brown explained that radio contact was lost for six sols —...
Watch - Nasa performs the first helicopter flight on Mars
Nasa successfully performed the first-ever powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet on Monday.
The flight – which lasted for about 40 seconds – was carried out by the ultralight solar-powered helicopter Ingenuity on...