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The return on investment on NASA creating anything is huge. Opportunity was planned as a 90 day operation, it lasted 14 years 11 months.
Keep trucking little copter! I know several of the engineers who developed that thing. Really smart engineers who absolutely deserve to take a victory lap
I know, it’s amazing! Keep on keeping it on Ingenuity!
Lemmy AMA when?
Lol I can do a Lemmy AMA if people really want to hear about developing spacecraft. Should note most of my friends at JPL are people I went to college with - I only worked there as an intern
yes please!
Great news!
That’s impressive how resilient it is, with no human intervention.
It’s impressive how well these work after so much abuse
“ The loss of communications was expected, because a hill stood between Ingenuity and Perseverance, which acts as a relay between the drone and Earth.”
I assume this means the hill moved? How did they reestablish contact?
https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-breaks-63-day-silence “ All communications to and from Ingenuity must be routed through Perseverance. That explains the recent silent spell, which the two mission teams had expected: The rover had disappeared behind a hill from the helicopter’s perspective, and it didn’t come back into view until June 28.”
The rover Ingenuity moved
That is a much more sensible explanation, although mine offers a lot more opportunities for a sci-fi horror flick
