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NASA Eyes April For First Helicopter Flight On Mars – AVweb
NASA has marked April 8 as the first possible flight date for its Ingenuity Mars helicopter technology demonstrator.
NASA has marked April 8 as the first possible flight date for its Mars helicopter technology demonstrator, which arrived on the planet on Feb. 18 attached to the Perseverance rover. Named Ingenuity, the demonstrator is designed to be the first powered, controlled aircraft to fly on another planet. Once it detaches from the rover, the helicopter will have 30 Martian days (sols) to complete its flight test program.
When NASAs Sojourner rover landed on Mars in 1997, it proved that roving the Red Planet…
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