NASA's Mars Ingenuity mission team members recently announced that the helicopter is on its 19th flight on the Red Planet, the first of its flights in 2022.
Scientists threw a mock rocket into the air at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) during tests of a launch system that aims to fire a rocket off Mars and will bring rock samples for closer study.
Despite studying Mars for many decades now, there is still more to explore on the Red Planet to gather data on a variety of places. That means cheaper Martian missions are needed.
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter was supposed to fly only five times on the Red Planet's surface. However, it seems it is not yet ready to retire even after its successful 13th flight.
For the first time, NASA's Perseverance rover successfully dug a sample from a rock on Mars. The space agency wants to gather more samples and bring them back to Earth to analyze later.
China's National Space Science Center (CNNSC) has unveiled a "Mars cruise drone" prototype that appears to be quite similar with NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter.
NASA's Perseverance rover prepares to collect its first Martian rock sample a year after its launch. The rock sample will be brought back to Earth in a joint NASA and ESA mission as early as 2031.
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has now flown over one mile, marking its successful tenth flight on the Red Planet. It has taken photos of Raised Ridges that Perseverance rover might soon be visiting.
NASA is not sharing many details about Ingenuity's eighth test flight, what it has said is that the helicopter flew for 77.4 seconds over a distance of 160 meters.
Bright Computing recently announced that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory or JPL of NASA chose Bright Cluster Manager for JPL's latest clustered environment in its research and development lab.
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter successfully completed its seventh flight on Mars. The space helicopter landed in a new airfield that had only been imaged by a Mars-orbiting spacecraft.