Mars Helicopter Ingenuity

Ingenuity, nicknamed Ginny, is an autonomous NASA helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of the Mars 2020 mission. Ingenuity made its first flight on 19 April 2021, demonstrating that flight is possible in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars, and becoming the first aircraft to conduct a powered and controlled extraterrestrial flight. It was designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in collaboration with AeroVironment, NASA's Ames Research Center and Langley Research Center with some components supplied by Lockheed Martin Space, Qualcomm, and SolAero.

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2014 Mars Helicopter Ingenuity

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deployment

2024-01-18T00:00:00Z

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last flight

2024-04-16T00:00:00Z

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mission termination

2021-04-19T00:00:00Z

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maiden flight

2024-01-25T00:00:00Z

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service retirement

2020-07-30T00:00:00Z

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rocket launch

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loss of signal

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Ingenuity's First Black-and-White Image From the Air

Mars - Ingenuity Helicopter - Flight Zone Activities - March 23, 2021

NASA - Mars Missions - September 28, 2021

Ingenuity's Successful Fifth Flight To Airfield B

Mastcam-Z Views Ingenuity After Fifth Flight on Airfield B

Mars Helicopter Prototype

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Team Members With Collier Trophy

The swatch of muslin from the Wright brothers’ airplane attached under the solar panel of the Ingenuity helicopter

Members of the NASA Mars Helicopter team inspect Ingenuity inside the Space Simulator

HiRISE's View of Ingenuity's Fourth Flight Path Paving the Way for it to move to second Airfield on its 5th Flight

• Rotorcrafts for Mars Exploration - conference paper published in June 2014, Q1860, online
• Mars Helicopter Technology Demonstrator - conference article from the 2018 AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		Ingenuity's First Black-and-White Image From the Air		Commons
commons	image		Mars - Ingenuity Helicopter - Flight Zone Activities - March 23, 2021		Commons
commons	image		NASA - Mars Missions - September 28, 2021		Commons
commons	image		Ingenuity's Successful Fifth Flight To Airfield B		Commons
commons	image		Mastcam-Z Views Ingenuity After Fifth Flight on Airfield B		Commons
commons	image		Mars Helicopter Prototype		Commons
commons	image		NASA’s Mars Helicopter Team Members With Collier Trophy		Commons
commons	image		The swatch of muslin from the Wright brothers’ airplane attached under the solar panel of the Ingenuity helicopter		Commons
commons	image		Members of the NASA Mars Helicopter team inspect Ingenuity inside the Space Simulator		Commons
commons	image		HiRISE's View of Ingenuity's Fourth Flight Path Paving the Way for it to move to second Airfield on its 5th Flight		Commons