Mars Helicopter Scout

Also known as Mars Helicopter Ingenuity, Ginny, Mars Helicopter, NASA - Ingenuity

Drone sperimentale integrato alla missione Mars 2020

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

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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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Article · Italiano

Il Mars Helicopter Scout, meglio conosciuto come Ingenuity, è un elicottero drone che opera sul pianeta Marte nell'ambito della missione della NASA Mars 2020. È stato lanciato il 30 luglio 2020 all'interno del rover Perseverance ed è atterrato su Marte il 18 febbraio 2021 dopo una caduta durata circa 7 minuti. Si tratta del primo velivolo "motorizzato" (nel 1985 i sovietici con la missione vega 1 e 2 fecero volare dei palloni ad Elio per 46 ore) a volare su un altro pianeta. Il velivolo ha portato su Marte, sotto i suoi pannelli solari, un frammento dell'ala di Flyer I, l'aeroplano utilizzato dai fratelli Wright per il loro primo volo sulla Terra. L'omaggio è continuato nel momento in cui la NASA ha annunciato di aver denominato l'area sorvolata dal velivolo "Wright Brothers Field", la quale ha poi ottenuto, in modo onorario, il codice aeroportuale ICAO JZRO. Ingenuity stesso ha invece ottenuto, sempre in modo onorario, il codice vettore ICAO YGY.

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