NASA Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z captured the Ingenuity helicopter's 54th flight on Mars. A camera onboard Ingenuity ...

L ast week, one of the most innovative missions in space exploration came to a bitter end. NASA’s famously successful Ingenuity rotorcraft — the 3.5-pound helicopter-like robot collecting ...

Ingenuity, the little Mars helicopter that became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet, can no longer fly due to rotor blade damage, NASA announced ...

Ingenuity, the first robot ever to fly on Mars, suffered rotor-blade damage during its most recent hop and can no longer fly, NASA announced today (Jan. 25).

NASA is retiring Ingenuity, its mini Mars helicopter, a week after it was damaged during its 72nd flight. The spindly overachiever made history as the first aircraft to complete a powered, ...

NASA graphic of the most likely scenario for the crash of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024. NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

However, NASA has learned a lot from Ingenuity’s various record-breaking flights. While the helicopter was built to be affordable while still demanding large amounts of computer power, ...

NASA engineers only intended the Mars Perseverance Rover’s Ingenuity helicopter to complete a maximum of five experimental test flights over 30 days in 2021. The experimental vehicle, however ...

Image source: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Ingenuity survived its first near-death experience back in 2021. But the Mars-based helicopter’s troubles didn’t stop there.

NASA’s famously successful Ingenuity rotorcraft — the 3.5-pound helicopter-like robot collecting samples on Mars — finally came to a crashing end.