Nowhere on Earth can we fully replicate the conditions on Mars. Special facilities can re-create certain elements with enough fidelity to test specific scenarios, but each is limited, leading to

Flight 72 Expected flight date: 01/18/2024 Horizontal flight distance: 0 meters Expected flight time: 32.08 seconds Flight altitude: 12 meters Heading: NA Max flight speed: 0 m/s Goal of flight: Pop-up Flight – Localization Airfield:

Flight 71 Expected flight date: 01/06/2024 Horizontal flight distance: 358.3 meters Expected flight time: 124.92 seconds Flight altitude: 12 meters Heading: West Max flight speed: 7 m/s Goal of flight: Reposition Helicopter Airfield: Same

Flight 70 Expected flight date: 12/22/2023 Horizontal flight distance: 258.735 meters Expected flight time: 129.37 seconds Flight altitude: 12 meters Heading: West Max flight speed: 3 m/s Goal of flight: Reposition Helicopter Airfield: Same

Trailblazer Long before Ingenuity’s historic first flight on Mars, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and their collaborators at AeroVironment Inc. were already moving the boundaries of