28 Apr 2021
With three successful flights in the logbook, Ingenuity has demonstrated it is ready for more.
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team will discuss plans for the rotorcraft’s remaining flight campaign during a virtual media briefing at 12:30 p.m. EDT (9:30 a.m. PDT) Friday, April 30. The helicopter has flown successfully three times and completed its mission objectives, and engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California aim to push the limits of what this experiment can do.
The briefing will stream live on the NASA JPL YouTube channel, the NASA app and the agency’s website.
Briefing participants include:
- Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters
- MiMi Aung, Ingenuity project manager at JPL
- Bob Balaram, Ingenuity chief engineer at JPL
- Ken Farley, Perseverance project scientist at Caltech
- Jennifer Trosper, Perseverance rover deputy project manager at JPL
Members of the public may ask questions on social media during the briefing using #MarsHelicopter.
The Ingenuity 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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In this illustration, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies above the surface of the Red Planet with the agency's Perseverance rover close by.