NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Crash

After accident crash on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter could live on as a weather station for 20 years
"She still has one final gift for us, which is that she's now going to continue on as a weather station of sorts."
NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Crash: Why did the Mars Accident Happen?
"When running an accident investigation from 100 million miles away, you don't have any black boxes!" NASA's Håvard Grip said.
Lessons learned from Ingenuity Mars helicopter will play into designs for follow-on craft
Engineers now say they understand the most likely cause of the Ingenuity helicopter's crash landing on Mars earlier this year.
36 blades of power: NASA plans SUV-sized Mars helicopter after Ingenuity loss
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter — the first aircraft to fly on another planet — recently crashed due to a navigation glitch. Despite this setback, Ingenuity’s successful flights demonstrated the feasibility of aerial exploration on Mars. Following its success, NASA is developing a more advanced second helicopter for aerial exploration.
Ingenuity: How remains of humanity’s first Mars helicopter will help NASA
The investigation suggests that a failure in Ingenuity's navigation system led to a hard landing, causing the mission to end.
NASA thinks it’s figured out why the Mars helicopter crashed
Relying on remote data, including photographs taken after the flight, the investigators believe that “navigation errors created high horizontal velocities at touchdown,” which most likely resulted in Ingenuity experiencing a “hard impact on the sand ripple’s slope,” causing it to pitch and roll.
NASA Reveals Cause of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Crash
Ingenuity rode to Mars attached to the Perseverance rover's belly. Unlike the rover, which was built from expensive custom hardware designed to withstand the rigors of space exploration, Ingenuity was built from off-the-shelf components like a Snapdragon 801 smartphone processor.
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Crash Helps Us Learn About The Red Planet
Even in death, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter is helping us learn about Mars. The small aircraft met the demise of its main mission on 18 January 2024, after nearly three epic years of flitting around in the thin Martian atmosphere, like the piece of engineering marvel that it is.
NASA Ingenuity Helicopter's Crash on Mars Is Now Unveiled—Here's What Caused Its Demise
Ingenuity's Flight 72 saw the Mars helicopter perform a 'vertical hop' which was meant to only fly the rotorcraft for a brief moment to assess its flight systems and capture the area, but on its way down, the machine suffered damages that led to it being its final mission.
After crashing on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter could live on as a weather station for 20 years
Ingenuity may never fly above the surface of Mars again, but the downed helicopter is otherwise healthy and could serve as a weather station for decades, JPL says.
NASA Now Knows Why Its Mars Helicopter Crashed
Imagine how much more difficult it would be to diagnose a helicopter accident that took place 69 million miles away with none of the usual data present to help. NASA had to do just that after its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter suffered an accident on Jan.
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