Size Duel deck / Ships, aircraft and spacecraft
Ingenuity helicopter
Mass: the helicopter alone
about 1.8 kg (3.97 lb)
The first powered aircraft to fly on another planet, on Mars in 2021.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-10-21: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source.
“1.8 kilograms”NASA: source, retrieved 2026-10-21; quote re-found by the server check
“1.8 kg”Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: source, retrieved 2026-10-21; quote re-found by the server check
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