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Launch Rundown: The path to NASA’s upcoming Mars 2020 Perseverance and...
On the heels of the return to human space flight from American soil, NASA is launching another historic mission this year. Perseverance, the newest of NASA’s Mars rovers, plans to launch as soon as...
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Space Time: NASA JPL’s Jaakko Karras on the Mars helicopter Ingenuity
Space Time is a new podcast from Space Explored, part of the 9to5Mac Network. Zac Hall and Seth Kurkowski are joined by Jaakko Karras of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab to unpack the work behind ingenuity,...
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Dispatches from NASA: Countdown to Mars kicks off a decade of science and...
NASA’s Perseverance lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral on July 30. The new Mars rover traveled atop a United Launch Alliance-operated Atlas V rocket. The Countdown to Mars is just...
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NASA’s new Perseverance rover is halfway to Mars where it will search for...
While so many of us have been staying close to home during the COVID-19 pandemic, NASA’s new Perseverance rover has been zooming away from our planet in search of its new home on Mars. Percy officially...
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What are the ‘7 Minutes of Terror’ and what to look for during Perseverance’s...
Last July NASA’s newest Mars rover lifted off from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. This began its roughly 6-month journey to the Red Planet and tomorrow will bring the long awaiting...
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How to watch NASA’s Perseverance rover land on Mars
Not too often do we get to witness a brand new rover land on another planet, Curiosity landed on Mars back in 2012. Today NASA will be providing a wide range of ways to watch it land no matter what...
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NASA successfully lands Perseverance in Jezero Crater
Almost a decade of development and waiting has finally led to the moment the world has been waiting for. NASA’s Mars 2020 mission was launched onto its journey to Mars back in July of 2020 and teams...
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NASA shares a sneak peek of upcoming landing footage from Perseverance
With less than a day on its life on Mars Perseverance has already wowed us with its first still image during one of the most difficult and dangerous times of the descent. Like its twin rover Curiosity,...
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First Martian helicopter in good health while NASA prepares the first video...
One of the craziest experiments a part of the Mars 2020 mission, Ingenuity the small helicopter attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover, has messaged home to controllers at JPL. It saying that...
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NASA Releases the first video and sound from Perseverance’s entry landing and...
After 3 days of downloading data from the rover via JPL’s Deep Space Network NASA finally shared with us the videos that documented the entry descent and landing process that took place on Mars last...
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Reddit users decode hidden message left on Perseverance’s parachute
After yesterday’s mind-blowing Entry Descent and Landing (EDL) video reveal and dump of raw images for the public to gloss over, some have been looking closer at the pattern used on the parachute....
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NASA Engineers have selected a location for the first Martian airfield
NASA’s Perseverance Rover landed on February 18th and recently began to move. Mounted on the belly of the rover is Ingenuity, a small, 1.8 KG helicopter. Ingenuity will attempt the first powered and...
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Perseverance rover releases debris shield covering Ingenuity Mars helicopter
Yesterday, NASA’s Perseverance rover released the debris shield which protected the Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity. This marks the beginning of the deployment for Ingenuity; which is expected to take 10...
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JPL gives Ingenuity helicopter a flight date and honors former engineer with...
Today, during a press briefing on the first flight of Mars Helicopter Ingenuity, new information was revealed for the upcoming flight of Ingenuity. This first flight is currently targeting April 8th....
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[Update: Blades Unlocked] How NASA’s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will be...
The Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is an exciting new development in planetary exploration. The ability to have powered, controlled flights on another planet opens up new possibilities for future robotic...
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Mars helicopter Ingenuity spins blades in preparation for first flight
We have been following the deployment of Ingenuity since it first landed on Mars, on the belly of Perseverance, back in February. NASA has been working towards the first flight of Ingenuity, which is...
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[Update: Further Delays]Ingenuity Flight Delayed after high-speed spin test...
[Update Below] On April 10th, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory shared in a Status Update that the first flight of Mars Helicopter Ingenuity has been rescheduled to No Earlier Than April 14th. Ingenuity...
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Mars Helicopter Ingenuity completes high-speed spin test after last week’s...
After delays in the first flight of Ingenuity due to a failure to complete the first high-speed spin test, Ingenuity may be back on track. NASA shared today that Ingenuity has successfully completed a...
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[Video] ‘Get to the Choppa!’ Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks on Mars Helicopter...
Mars helicopter Ingenuity is in preparation for flight early tomorrow. As the first powered and controlled flight on Mars, the small helicopter Ingenuity will pave the way for a new future in planetary...
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Mars Helicopter Ingenuity makes history, successfully taking first flight on...
On a livestream from mission control early this morning, the Ingenuity team received the very first data confirming the successful flight of Mars Helicopter Ingenuity. more…
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Google celebrates historic Mars Helicopter flight with a custom search page
After the announcement of the first successful flight of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter people have taken to social media to share their excitement, including companies and celebrities. more…
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How to build your very own LEGO Ingenuity mini-figure
Early Monday morning NASA’s Ingenuity took its first flight into the Martian atmosphere. This marks the first powered flight on another planet 118 years after the Wright brothers took their first...
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Mars Helicopter Ingenuity prepares for second flight
Tomorrow, April 22nd, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will be making its second flight. more…
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NASA Ingenuity helicopter takes its second bigger and better flight on Mars
After the success of its first flight at the beginning of this week, Ingenuity took its second flight early this morning. This flight pushed the tech demo to do more challenging tasks as they step...
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Mars Helicopter team holds AMA
At 4pm Eastern, the Mars Helicopter team will be having a Reddit Ask Me Anything. more…
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Mars Helicopter Ingenuity spots Perseverance Rover on Mars surface while in...
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity completed its third flight on Sunday. Images and video have been arriving back on Earth since then, and on Tuesday a notable image arrived. more…
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[Update: New flight time announced] NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter considered a...
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has wowed us from Earth with its first flights over the Red Planet. After just 3 flights the tech demo has completed all of its test objectives and will now push the...
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Ingenuity successfully flies for the fourth time and receives an extension of...
Earlier this morning Ingenuity took off for the fourth and most daring flight of its campaign. It took several hours for flight data to be received by the JPL team but all signs look that it was a...
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’60 Minutes’ reviews first month of life on Mars for Ingenuity helicopter and...
We’ve been deep diving through Perseverance and Ingenuity since before the Mars 2020 mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral last year. Still, seeing NASA’s Mars rover and first-ever helicopter and...
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Mars Helicopter Ingenuity survives sixth flight despite in-flight anomaly
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity was originally expected to complete its campaign after just five flights. After extraordinary performance on in the initial flights, demonstrating the possibility of powered...
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Mars Helicopter Ingenuity completes 9th flight over Fourth of July weekend
Since we last covered Ingenuity, shortly after its sixth flight, it has been hard at work exploring the Martian surface. Ingenuity has certainly proved useful to Martian exploration, making these...
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Check out this animation showing NASA Ingenuity’s 9th flight [Video]
At the beginning of this month, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter made a daring flight that would trek over 600 meters, at speeds of up to 5 m/s for just under 3 minutes. A user created an animation of the...
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This Day In Space: Perseverance launches to Mars; NASA’s most advanced rover yet
The Mars 2020 mission consisted of two main payloads, the Perseverance rover and a technology demonstration helicopter called Ingenuity. Perseverance was the 6th rover ever sent to the Martian surface...
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Mars Helicopter Ingenuity makes 13th flight on Mars
Ingenuity recently completed its 13th flight on Mars. Mars helicopter campaign extended from the initially planned 5 flights and is now serving as a valuable tool to assist with route planning for the...
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China working on Mars Helicopter similar to NASA’s Ingenuity
A press release from China’s National Space Science Center provided a first look at a prototype for their new Martian Helicopter. more…
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Mars 2020’s Perseverance Rover lands on the surface of Mars | This Day in...
How on Earth (err.. Mars?) has it been a full year since NASA’s latest Mars rover landed on the surface of Mars! The rover launched back on July 30, 2020 on an Atlas V 541 rocket and traveled for over...
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NASA Ingenuity prepares for Martian winter as power levels dwindle
NASA is having Ingenuity prepare itself for winter on Mars as the little helicopter is slowly not retaining enough power to last the night. So for now, regular flight operations will cease until...
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Ingenuity makes flight 29 after fixing a dead sensor
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has been hunkering down to hopefully survive the cold Martian winter and to do so it made flight 29 to get closer to the Perseverance rover. This flight follows NASA’s need...
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A fleet of Ingenuity-like helicopters could come to Mars for sample return...
It’s that time of year again (I feel like it is always that time of year) when drafts of NASA’s next fiscal year budget start to form. During this process, we gain insight into how Congress wants that...
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NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission adds two helicopters after Ingenuity flights
NASA and the European Space Agency are on track to bring the first-ever Mars soil and atmosphere samples back to Earth. Today both space agencies shared an update on exactly how they plan to do that...
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Yes, that helicopter on Mars still works
On April 19, 2021, the Ingenuity helicopter earned the title of the first powered flight on another planet. Nearly two years later, the helicopter has completed its 50th flight on Mars. Was this...
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Confirmed: Mars helicopter still alive
Did you know that operators spent a little over two months without communication with the helicopter on the surface of Mars? Its 50th flight, back in April of this year, was a record-breaking flight...
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NASA goes hard at flight testing for future Martian helicopters
Earth and Mars are now home to flight testing programs to develop better future Martian helicopters for NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission. NASA now has new blades for a future Martian helicopter while...
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Ingenuity’s mission is complete after 72 flights on Mars
The little helicopter that could, and did, has flown its last mission after damaging one of its carbon fiber propeller blades. After three years of flying, Ingenuity totaled 72 total missions of its...
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