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To: Ezekiel

Sounds like Ginny took a sick day. I hope she’s OK.


5 posted on 08/04/2023 6:17:27 PM PDT by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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To: TChad; telescope115
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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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Again After Unscheduled Landing


6 posted on 08/09/2023 10:11:43 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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