by Spyros Georgilidakis | Jul 27, 2021 | News
The Mars Ingenuity helicopter has made 10 flights. It has evolved into an invaluable tool for the Perseverance rover, in unpredictable ways! It would have been successful had it made even ONE controlled flight. All it was supposed to achieve was a short demonstration,...
by Spyros Georgilidakis | May 8, 2021 | News
Yesterday (Friday 7th of May) NASA released recorded sound of its Ingenuity helicopter, during its fourth Mars flight on the 30th of April! We have honestly lost count of the number of firsts in the Perseverance/Ingenuity Mars mission. First, we saw video of a Mars...
by Spyros Georgilidakis | May 3, 2021 | News
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter is proving so successful that they will incorporate it to Perseverance’s operations. Because they HAVE to! “It is only going to be a demonstration”, they said. “Even one successful lift-off, flight and landing, will be a huge success”,...
by Spyros Georgilidakis | Apr 22, 2021 | News
NASA announced yesterday that the Perseverance rover on Mars succeeded in extracting oxygen from the atmosphere, for the first time! Just three days ago we celebrated the Ingenuity helicopter’s flight. Now, NASA blows our minds again, by extracting oxygen on Mars!...
by Spyros Georgilidakis | Apr 19, 2021 | News
In a first for aviation, NASA just completed the first aerodynamic flight in another world, when the Ingenuity helicopter took off and landed on Mars! NASA likened this accomplishment to the first flight of the Wright Flyer. That Kitty Hawk flight 107 years ago...
