I'm glad it met expectations, but a craft named Ingenuity breaking and crashing is so funny!
I'm glad it met expectations, but a craft named Ingenuity breaking and crashing is so funny!
For a cool little project that was expected to maybe survive 1-5 flights it did a pretty good job and got a lot of interesting data.
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From the post: "It has now been several weeks since NASA's tenacious helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, made its final flight above the red planet.
This happened last month. On January 6, Ingenuity flew 40 feet (12 meters) skyward but then made an unplanned early landing after just 35 seconds. Twelve days later, operators intended to troubleshoot the vehicle with a quick up-and-down test. Data from the vehicle indicated that it ascended to 40 feet again during this test, but then communications were ominously lost at the end of the flight."
For a cool little project that was expected to maybe survive 1-5 flights it did a pretty good job and got a lot of interesting data.
Archive: https://archive.is/FANwK
From the post:
"It has now been several weeks since NASA's tenacious helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, made its final flight above the red planet.
This happened last month. On January 6, Ingenuity flew 40 feet (12 meters) skyward but then made an unplanned early landing after just 35 seconds. Twelve days later, operators intended to troubleshoot the vehicle with a quick up-and-down test. Data from the vehicle indicated that it ascended to 40 feet again during this test, but then communications were ominously lost at the end of the flight."
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