Nearly a year has passed since NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity became the first flying vehicle to perform a controlled flight on another planet. Ingenuity, which has been on the mission for a long time and is preparing to break the flight record, has made 23 additional flights over the surface of Mars.
Ingenuity has been collecting various information on Mars for about 1 year. The vehicle, which weighs 1.8 kilograms and is 48 cm tall, allows us to look at Mars from a different angle. The helicopter, which has covered different distances during these flights, will soon make its longest flight ever.
Mars helicopter Ingenuity to break long flight record
The mission team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has begun preparing the miniature helicopter for long flight. With its 704-meter flight, Ingenuity will surpass its previous record by 77 meters.
Approx. 7 This distance in the length of a football field may not seem that impressive at first. However, this distance is quite significant for a flying vehicle operating autonomously on a planet approximately 200 million kilometers away.
NASA’s miniature helicopter has two rotors that spin in opposite directions at between 2,400 and 2,800 RPM. This particular helicopter has two carbon fiber propellers. In this way, the mini helicopter can take off on Mars, whose atmosphere is 100 times thinner than ours.
NASA is using Ingenuity to build a more advanced vehicle for future missions. Mars Helicopter completed its final flight on 3 April. In this flight, which lasted approximately 70 seconds, the speed of 5 km/h was slightly exceeded. The distance covered by the vehicle was just over 47 meters. A date has not yet been announced for Ingenuity’s record flight.
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