Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Flight 54! 🔴

Flight 53
Sol 860
Date July 22, 2023
Horizontal Distance 142.50 m ~468 ft
Max. Alititude 5 m ~16 ft
Max. Groundspeed 2.50 m/s ~5.6 mph
Duration 74.9 seconds
Route of Flight From Airfield Xi to Airfield Omicron

Flight 54
Sol 872
Date Aug. 3, 2023 Horizontal Distance 0 m 0 ft
Max. Altitude 5 m ~16 ft
Max. Groundspeed 0 m/s 0 mph
Duration 24.4 seconds
Route of Flight Airfield Omicron

I included information for Flight 53, as it has gone unreported, although data was saved to the file here:

"m20 heli waypoints"

Flight 53 stats from the Flight Log differ quite a bit from the preview numbers, and also from the date given in the 'waypoints' data file.

Ingenuity rocks on!

It will be interesting to see what happened with Flight 53. The results were really off from what it was supposed to do.

Even the date is back to the original July 22, but the JSON file had it flying on the 26th.

Perhaps Ginny has decided to identify as a time machine. 🤔

Gotta live a little!

Had to laugh:

The complicated flight profile included flying north 666 feet...Instead... a flight-contingency program was triggered...

The helicopter performed a short hop to help the team better understand why its previous flight was interrupted.

🤔, maybe they should have programmed something else.

The helicopter performed a short hop to help the team better understand why its previous flight was interrupted.
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter successfully completed its 54th flight on Aug. 3, the first flight since the helicopter cut its July 22 flight short. The 25-second up-and-down hop provided data that could help the Ingenuity team determine why its 53rd flight ended early.
Flight 53 was planned as a 136-second scouting flight dedicated to collecting imagery of the planet’s surface for the Perseverance Mars rover science team. The complicated flight profile included flying north 666 feet (203 meters) at an altitude of 16 feet (5 meters) and a speed of 5.6 mph (2.5 meters per second), then descending vertically to 8 feet (2.5 meters), where it would hover and obtain imagery of a rocky outcrop. Ingenuity would then climb straight up to 33 feet (10 meters) to allow its hazard divert system to initiate before descending vertically to touch down.
Instead, the helicopter executed the first half of its autonomous journey, flying north at an altitude of 16 feet (5 meters) for 466 feet (142 meters). Then a flight-contingency program was triggered, and Ingenuity automatically landed. The total flight time was 74 seconds.
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