Commemorating The First Flight on Mars By NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter
On April 19, 2021 the first flight of a powered aircraft on another planet (Mars) completed by a helicopter called Ingenuity, controlled by NASA’s engineers. The aircraft’s callsign is 1-IGY
Lali, VE3NE will operate with special callsign VX31IGY from May 27, 2021 to June 27, 2021 including participation in the CQWPX CW contest. A special QSL card will be available via VE3NE. Log will be also available during and after the operation.
It’s good to see commemorations of the space program return. I still have my cards from Viking N6V and the Voyager missions. Let’s hope NASA and ESA make a lot more available. How better to get young hams interested in the ultimate destiny of our kind? Soon we will have the ultimate DX, too! Hunt – K0HT