The small robotic helicopter that will help the newest Mars rover explore the Red Planet has been freed from its debris shield and could conduct its first flight no earlier than April 8, NASA engineers said Tuesday.
Ingenuity, weighing less than two kilograms, will be conducting the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. It survived the journey to Mars, attached to the belly of the rover Perservance, as the spacecraft landed on Feb. 18.
The estimated date announced for its inaugural flight "could change by a few days in either direction," said Bob Balaram, Ingenuity chief engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in southern California.
After dropoff at the air field, the rover will carefully back away from Ingenuity to allow its solar array to fully charge Ingenuity, Farah Alibay, a Canadian systems engineer at JPL, told the briefing.
Once the craft leaves the grounds, it will fly in the planet's atmosphere at a maximum height of five metres.
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2021-03-23 18:31:42Z
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