{"id":111350,"date":"2020-08-14T19:25:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T02:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-powered-up-for-the-first-time-in-interplanetary-space"},"modified":"2020-08-14T19:25:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T02:25:29","slug":"nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-powered-up-for-the-first-time-in-interplanetary-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-powered-up-for-the-first-time-in-interplanetary-space","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Powered Up for the First Time in Interplanetary Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-powered-up-for-the-first-time-in-interplanetary-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Headed to the Red Planet with the Perseverance rover, the pioneering helicopter is powered up for the first time in interplanetary space as part of a systems check.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NASAs Ingenuity Mars Helicopter received a checkout and recharge of its power system on Friday, August 7, one week into its near seven-month journey to Mars with the Perseverance rover. This marks the first time the helicopter has been powered up and its batteries have been charged in the space environment.<\/p>\n<p>During the eight-hour operation, the performance of the rotorcraft\u2019s six lithium-ion batteries was analyzed as the team brought their charge level up to 35%. The project has determined a low charge state is optimal for battery health during the cruise to Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headed to the Red Planet with the Perseverance rover, the pioneering helicopter is powered up for the first time in interplanetary space as part of a systems check. NASAs Ingenuity Mars Helicopter received a checkout and recharge of its power system on Friday, August 7, one week into its near seven-month journey to Mars with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1495,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-health","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}