Today is that day. NASA’s invention of the Mars helicopter will try to take the first plane to the Red Planet.
If successful, it would be the first man-powered aircraft powered by another manned vehicle on Earth in the solar system. This first aircraft expected to last about 30 seconds, Rotor blades 2,537 per minute (rpm). The spin will spin and the helicopter will shut down after verifying that it is OK. It takes about 3 seconds to reach a higher operational height of 3 meters (10 feet). It will then rotate in place before coming down softly.
All of this will do automatically and we will not have data, images and videos for hours on the actual flight. The flight is expected to arrive in the United States early in the morning (12:30 p.m. PDT / 3: 30 AMDT / 8: 30 AM BST), holding a live conference to announce how it will run three hours later. “The first plane will have a 30-second spin-up, which will turn back a few minutes above the ground and touch back. Then we got a nice plot and an image that made sure it effectively implemented, and then everyone took his or her seats. In addition, they are very excited, “said Taryn Bailey, a mechanical engineer on the Ingenuity mission team.
Over the past few weeks, the helicopter has undergone several tests to test its mobility, including gently spinning its rotor blades and then pushing the RPMT. It crashed on April 11, the day of the original launch, when a “watchdog” feature sent a timer termination command as the on-board computer was about to move from pre-flight mode to flight version.
Once the team identifies the problem and updates the software, they let the solar charge efficiently in preparation for today’s historic flight attempt. The innovation mission is a technological demonstration that works before it develops potentially more technologically advanced vehicles that could one day go ahead for astronauts or look for places that could easily reach other planets.
Never before has there been an attempt to fly an airplane to another planet, so when building a car that could have a chance to fly on Tuesday, many challenges had to be overcome, not least because of its thin environment and weak gravity. “I came to this project in 2017 that they had a design at the time so I was mainly involved in testing our engineering models, which we first used to make our design quite effective before we created our flight model.
