#AceNewsReport – Apr.20: Data from the first flight will return to Earth a few hours following the autonomous flight. A livestream will begin at 6:15 a.m. EDT (3:15 a.m. PDT), as the helicopter team prepares to receive the data downlink in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

NASA to Attempt First Controlled Flight on Mars As Soon As Monday & is targeting no earlier than Monday, April 19, for the first flight of its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at approximately 3:30 a.m. EDT (12:30 a.m. PDT).

If the flight takes place April 19, a postflight briefing will be held at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT).

The participants are:

• Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate
• Michael Watkins, JPL director
• MiMi Aung, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter project manager at JPL
• Bob Balaram, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter chief engineer at JPL
• Håvard Grip, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter chief pilot at JPL
• Justin Maki, Perseverance Mars rover imaging scientist and deputy principal investigator of Mastcam-Z instrument at JPL

The original flight date of April 11 shifted as engineers worked on preflight checks and a solution to a command sequence issue. The Perseverance rover will provide support during flight operations, taking images, collecting environmental data, and hosting the base station that enables the helicopter to communicate with mission controllers on Earth.

This technology demonstration is supported by NASA’s Science, Aeronautics Research, and Space Technology mission directorates. JPL, managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations for Ingenuity and the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.

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Last Updated: Apr 17, 2021

Editor: Karen Northon

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