57 flights past expected lifetime and still improving
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Ingenuity sets a record on every flight, by adding one to the number of flights taken by a helicopter sent by humans to the Red Planet. The ‘copter was only supposed to fly five times as a technology demonstration. Two and a half years later it’s still flying and was due to do so again on Thursday.calls for the craft to ascend to 18 metres and traverse 268 meters over 119.3 seconds, at a speed of ten meters-per-second.into Excel and sorted the data, leading us to conclude that Flight 62 will surpass Flight 60’s top speed of 8 m/s.
Yes, dear reader, that means a vehicle designed to finish operations more than two years ago is now performing better than ever before – an exceptional outcome for any system, anytime, anywhere, never mind in the insanely difficult environment of Mars.Ingenuity’s record attempt will start and finish at Airfield Tau. NASA describes its goals as “Imaging science targets” and “Flight envelope expansion”.
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