Maybe something blocked the signal.....................
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?
After watching the Japanese lunar probe mis-hap, USA-MARS stories make me feel good.
I thought it finally died
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
I’ve heard about every silly flight and the first was no different from the last
I can’t imagine how many millions of dollars it cost to do what I can do in the back yard for about $100
R. Shimon Ben Gamliel says: This section will be uprooted from its place and written in its rightful place in the future (but for now it is in its correct location). Why is it written here? So as to separate between first and second retribution [3]. Second retribution is "and the people grumbled". First retribution is "and they traveled from the mountain of G-d (i.e., they eagerly run away from G-d's presence)".Where is it its appropriate place? Rav Ashi says: "In the section dealing with the disposition of the Israelites according to their banners and their travelling arrangements" (Numbers 1:52-2:34, Shabbath 116a).
אָמַר רַב אָשֵׁי: בַּדְּגָלִים
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.)
Together with the details on this post, but in short here...
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The story we are left with [from the Flight Log as-is] is that forward progress "ended" with Flight 70, although 71 was actually supposed to go forward by ~358 ft.<<<The last movement now given is a distance that is ~358.. in reverse.
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Well I wouldn't know how it all went down; I merely observed the anomaly.
Each flight on the waypoints log comprises 50 lines of information.
The Flight Nos. appear on the lines ending with 08, or 58. Examples:
Flight 0 (birthday) -- line 8
Flight 1 -- line 58
Flight 7 -- line 358
Flight 42 -- line 2108
Flight 44 -- line 2208
Flight 70 -- line 3508
Who Knows 50? The distinguished number of transcendence.The progression from 49 to 50 has, as its precedent, the stepping stone from 7 to 8. The soul is likened to the 7th center of holiness within the body that sanctifies the 6 directions of the physical world toward spiritual pursuits.2 Through this process, the soul is able to elevate itself, and the body with it, toward perfection.3 In number terms, the 7 is elevated beyond to reach 8, which is synonymous with entry onto the higher transcendental plane.4 And the arrival at 50 similarly marks the entry into this exalted state.
With the announcement of end of the three-year mission [on Tu B'Shvat], news articles often mention the cost that had been put out by NASA at the beginning: $85m.
Which brings me around to the anomalies of the data reversals, because according to the documentation, the last flight, 72 [חסד], of broken wing -- the final 50 so to speak -- occurred on both Sol 1035 and Sol 1036.
And it just so happens that the 85 letters are bookended by reversed 50s, the inverted nuns in Numbers/BeMidbar 10:
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10.35. And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Lord, and let your enemies be scattered; and let them who hate you flee before you:
10.36. And when it rested, he said, Return, O Lord, to the many thousands of Israel:
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Well, there are not only the verses pertaining to the travelling of the camps with their flags.
There's this key [birth] date in Presidential history for the opening reading on Flag Day 1946/Sivan 15.
Rav Ashi says: "בַּדְּגָלִים", with the flags, not with *their* flags.
That suggests another dark horse candidate-location, because there's only one place in the Tanakh with a literal string of flags, "דגלים", and that's only because they stretch across two words, in Psalm 20 [נִדְגֹּל; יְמַלֵּא]
In that case,
"Where is it its appropriate place?"
With the flags (i.e. Psalm 20),
"in the day that we call"