NASA has lost communication with the Ingenuity Mars helicopter

digitaltrends ^ | January 20, 2024 6:15AM | Georgina Torbet

[outofsalt]

"NASA has now announced that it has lost contact with the (Mars) helicopter, though it’s unclear how serious this problem is." "NASA lost communication with the helicopter in the summer of last year, so it may be that communications with the helicopter can be re-established. It’s also possible that the Perseverance rover, which is nearby but currently out of sight of the helicopter, could drive over to perform a visual inspection to find out more about the helicopter’s status."

[Berlin_Freeper]

David Bowie – Space Oddity (Official Video)

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“NASA has lost communication with the Ingenuity Mars helicopter”

China has hacked the comm freq and all communication is now being routed through Tic Toc.

[SaveFerris]

I’m the victim of an interplanetary conspiracy to make me think that I’m a lowly construction 🚧🚧🚧 worker!!

I told her: Consider that a divorce!

😄😂🤣

[Tom Tetroxide]

It’s pretty amazing that a four pound heli-lander can fly in a 10 bar atmosphere as as compared to 1013 bar atmosphere of Earth.

[FlipWilson]

Matt Damon needed it to help grow poop potatoes.

[SaveFerris]

(Still a better performance than Joe in his 81 years on Earth)

Yeah but they lose radio comms when he’s wandering off stage......

“Can you hear me Major Joe?”

“Ground Control to Major Joe.
“Your circuit’s dead; there’s something wrong...”

“Can you hear me Major Joe?”

[tet68]

Check the flight logs...was Howard Walowitz
at the controls ???

[SaveFerris]

They should have put it on a Consumer Cellular cellphone 📱📱📱

[DesertRhino]

Well to be honest, that helicopter was way overdue for an annual.

[DesertRhino]

And I am completely amazed there FAA hasn’t stepped in before now. Only about half kidding.

[SaveFerris]

The signals are coming in much closer

There must be something wrong with console 36

HEY! My Mustang is stuck on full acceleration and there’s no brakes

And now Bosley wants to fire me!

[CivilWarBrewing]

The dust mucked up the works.. Swiffer to the rescue!

[Bob434]

It didn’t have a backup communication device on-board?

[Yardstick]

Ingenuity has been a spectacular success. Now that they’ve proven the concept, they should do a follow-up mission, this time with a video camera mounted on the helicopter.

[dfwgator]

But chicks on Mars have three of them.

[SaveFerris]

I got five children to feed!

[outofsalt]

Amazing engineering!

[SaveFerris]

Or maybe four children to feed!

[outofsalt]

"all communication is now being routed through Tic Toc."

If it can't fly, maybe it can dance?

[EEGator]

It’s aliens or transformers.