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

Flight 69 Expected flight date: 12/19/2023 Horizontal flight distance: 702.37 meters Expected flight time: 131.10 seconds Flight altitude: 16 meters Heading: East-northeast Max flight speed: 10 m/s Goal of flight: Flight Test Airfield: Same

Flight 68 Expected flight date: 12/09/2023 Horizontal flight distance: 828 meters Expected flight time: 146.56 seconds Flight altitude: 16 meters Heading: Northeast (out & back flight) Max flight speed: 10 m/s Goal of

Flight 67 Expected flight date: 12/02/2023 Horizontal flight distance: 392.84 meters Expected flight time: 133.57 seconds Flight altitude: 12 meters Heading: Northwest Max flight speed: 5.3 m/s Goal of flight: Reposition

There was a long delay between Flight 52 and Flight 53,  and a deviation from the published Flight 53 plan. I will address both in this blog post. First, the Flight

Flight 65 Expected flight date: 11/01/2023 Horizontal flight distance: 7 meters Expected flight time: 48.26 seconds Flight altitude: 10 meters Heading: West Max flight speed: 1 m/s Goal of flight:

Flight 66 Expected flight date: 11/02/2023 Horizontal flight distance: 0.5 meters Expected flight time: 23.38 seconds Flight altitude: 3 meters Heading: South Max flight speed: 1 m/s Goal of flight: Reposition

Flight 64 Expected flight date: 10/27/2023  Horizontal flight distance: 408.435 meters Expected flight time: 124.5 seconds Flight altitude: 12 meters Heading: North Max flight speed: 5.3 m/s Goal of flight: