NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to Fly No Earlier than April 8 Written 24 March 2021
Artist’s concept of the Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, slated to launch on NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission in July 2020. | NASA/JPL-Caltech
The Hill reports that the NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will take its first flight no earlier than April 8. The helicopter has a small amount of material from the wings of the Wright brothers’ first airplane, NASA said in a statement Tuesday. The swatch of fabric is wrapped with tape around a cable located underneath the helicopter’s solar panel.
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