Maybe something blocked the signal.....................
Posted on 01/25/2024 12:23:31 PM PST by Ezekiel
Flight 72
Sol 1035
Date Jan. 18, 2024
Horizontal Distance 0 m 0 ft
Max. Altitude 12 m ~39 ft
Max. Groundspeed 0 m/s 0 mph
Duration 32.0 seconds
Route of Flight Airfield Chi
Flight Log
By the Numbers
FLIGHTS
72
FLIGHT TIME
~128.8 MINS
DISTANCE FLOWN
11 MILES
(~17.0 km)
MAX. GROUND SPEED
22.4 MPH
10 m/s
HIGHEST ALTITUDE
24 METERS
(~79 ft)
Flight 72
Expected flight date: 01/18/2024
Horizontal flight distance: 0 meters
Expected flight time: 32.08 seconds
Flight altitude: 12 meters
Heading: NA
Max flight speed: 0 m/s
Goal of flight: Pop-up Flight - Localization
Airfield: Same
https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/507/flight-72-preview-by-the-numbers/
Also, the waypoints log has finally been updated with the data for both Flights 71 and 72.
According to the waypoints log, Flight 71 occurred on Sol 1024, and Flight 72 on Sol 1036. (They are listed on the main Flight Log page as Sols 1023 and 1035 respectively.)
Ginny’s hanging tough.
Maybe something blocked the signal.....................
Eventually the FAA will find out. This thing is got to be way overdue on its annual.
I wonder how many more flights she could have made were she not damaged. Still, I don’t think anyone imagined we would get 72 flights.
Did comms get restored?
So, Ingenuity is a proof-of-concept experiment. Can we fly in the Martian atmosphere? There is also another very successful proof-of-concept experiment on the rover Perseverance. Can we make oxygen out of the Martian atmosphere. MOXIE is the name. MOXIE proved we can indeed make oxygen out of the Martian atmosphere.
So, imagine a future billionaire who wants to fly his own helicopter on Mars. He or she constructs the helicopter cabin with several Moxie systems (and some emergency 02 tanks).
Mars does not have the Van Allen Radiation Belts that protect us from the Sun’s radiation hear on Earth. The first humans will probably live underground. There are significant lava tubes that could be used at first. The helicopter would need to fly at night, but how cool would that be?
They switched to Mint Mobile.
After watching the Japanese lunar probe mis-hap, USA-MARS stories make me feel good.
Yes. But...
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends/
I thought it finally died
It did. From the link I provided just above in the thread...
“NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than planned. While the helicopter remains upright and in communication with ground controllers, imagery of its Jan. 18 flight sent to Earth this week indicates one or more of its rotor blades sustained damage during landing, and it is no longer capable of flight.”
LOL...it worked!
That reminds me...we should switch to save a few bucks.
This report says it finally crashed aka KAPUT
So no sense posting reports about old flights anymore its ridiculous
“ potentially making a crash landing during its last flight”
Let it go
It’s dead Jim
That’s a bummer about damage to the blade(s). That’s about the last thing that I would have thought would fail.
They reestablished contact on the 20th.
What’s not out there yet is an update about what happened or why.
But they did get the flight data back which they put up on the flight log a short time before I posted the thread (under an hour).
I kind of suspect that because the data stream cut off mid-flight, they thought Ginny had suffered a catastrophic event. Also in the mix is that Flight 71 cut itself short, so 72 was intended to check positioning with a short pop-up.
Then the phone line went dead.
They thought it worth posting an update about it.
Not unusual for there to be comm delays based on terrain or distance from the rover or space weather, but this was different.
Mars2020 launched on July 30, 2020 so hopefully Ginny evaded the vax, because otherwise we’d really have to worry about “suddenly”!
NASA should invite a friend and 3 months free.
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