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Sign in to saveAlso known as Mars Helicopter Scout, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity, Ginny, Mars Helicopter, NASA - Ingenuity
decommissioned NASA rotorcraft on the Mars 2020 mission
AI overview
Ingenuity is a small helicopter that NASA sent to Mars as part of its 2020 mission, and it has now been decommissioned after completing its work. It mattered because it successfully demonstrated that flying aircraft could operate in Mars's thin atmosphere, proving a new way to explore the planet that future missions could build upon.
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Key facts
- Type
- Extraterrestrial autonomous UAV helicopter
- Serial number span no
- IGY ( civil registration )
- Owner
- NASA
- Manufacturer
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Dimensions
- 121 cm × 49 cm × 52 cm (48 in × 19 in × 20 in)
- Dry mass
- 1.8 kilograms (4.0 lb)
- Communication
- Zigbee transponder with base station on Perseverance
- Power
- 6 Solar -charged Sony VTC4 Li-ion batteries ; typical motor input power: 350 watt
- Deployed
- 3 April 2021 ( 2021-04-03 ) from Perseverance
- First flight
- 19 April 2021, 07:34 UTC (to and from Wright Brothers Field )
- Last flight
- 18 January 2024 (to and from Airfield Chi (χ) in Valinor Hills )
- Flight time
- 2 hr 8 min 48 sec, cumulative
- Travelled
- Horizontal: 17.242 km (10.714 mi) on Mars Vertical: max. 24 m (79 ft) Data from NASA Mars Helicopter Flight Log Maximum speed: 36.0 km/h (22.4 mph, 19.4 kn)
- Fate
- Grounded permanently due to rotor blade damage
- Location
- Jezero crater , Mars
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- space probe
- Part of
- Mars 2020
- Has part
- coaxial rotors
- Operator
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Country of origin
- United States
- Duration
- 7731.3
- Diameter
- 1.21
- Mass
- 1.8
- Official website
- www.avinc.com/about/mars-helicopter
- Image
- Mastcam-Z Gives Ingenuity a Close-up.jpg
- Height
- 0.49
- Width
- 14
- Length
- 14
- Speed
- 10.0
- Has use
- exploration of Mars
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- carries scientific instrument
- NavCam
- Commons category
- Ingenuity helicopter
- powered by
- lithium-ion battery
- inception
- 2014-00-00
- service entry
- 2021-02-18
- first flight
- 2021-04-19
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 41
- power consumed
- 220
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2020-07-30
- capital cost
- 5000000
- service retirement
- 2024-01-25
- event distance
- 16971
- vehicle range
- 705
- maximum operating altitude
- 24
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