In NASA’s most recent mission, the rover Perseverance carried the robotic helicopter Ingenuity to Mars. The launch was on July 30, 2020 in
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida and Delivery Date on Mars February 18, 2021 at the landing site Jezero Crater.
On April 19, 2021 Ingenuity successfully completed the first powered controlled flight by an aircraft on a planet besides Earth and is still performing after 14 flights.
On Friday November 12, 2021 from 9:30 am to 11:00am, Syracuse University’s School of Design is hosting SU IID Alumnus Stan Nowak and three of his engineering colleagues at AeroVironment. They will present about the design development of Ingenuity. A flight demonstration of the only Ingenuity prototype on this planet is part of the event in the dome, which will be open to the SU community.
