Relying on remote data, including photographs taken after the flight, the investigators believe that “navigation errors ...
Imagine how much more difficult it would be to diagnose a helicopter accident that took place 69 million miles away with none ...
After over 70 flights, the Ingenuity helicopter — the first craft to ever make a powered, controlled flight on another planet ...
"When running an accident investigation from 100 million miles away, you don't have any black boxes!" NASA's Håvard Grip said ...
"She still has one final gift for us, which is that she's now going to continue on as a weather station of sorts." ...
The investigation suggests that a failure in Ingenuity's navigation system led to a hard landing, causing the mission to end.
Engineers now say they understand the most likely cause of the Ingenuity helicopter's crash landing on Mars earlier this year ...
The first aircraft to achieve a powered, controlled flight on another planet, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter, crashed on Mars 11 ...
The Ingenuity helicopter flew on Mars for an incredible 72 flights. Now, NASA has shared findings of why the mission came to an end.
Ingenuity's Flight 72 saw the Mars helicopter perform a 'vertical hop' which was meant to only fly the rotorcraft for a brief ...
"The damaged blades caused excessive vibration in the rotor system, ripping the remainder of one blade from its root and ...