2023-08-12 22:07:44
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[EN VIDÉO] Ingenuity, always further, always faster The Ingenuity Martian helicopter made its 25th flight on April 8, 2022. The opportunity to establish a…
He had left to make 5 test flights above the ground of Mars. The Ingenuity drone-helicopter has just completed… its 54th! A flight unlike any other. Because he allowed the Martian helicopter to take a look at his friend with whom he landed on Mars, the PerseverancePerseverance rover. But also because it was meant to help engineers figure out what went wrong on the previous flight.
Understanding the Reverse of Ingenuity Flight 53
Flight 53, indeed, did not go as planned. About halfway through, on July 22, 2023, IngenuityIngenuity’s emergency program kicked in. Leading the drone-helicopter to prematurely land on the ground of the Red Planet.
NASA engineers believe that this emergency landing could have been triggered by a lack of synchronization between the images of the Martian helicopter’s navigation camera and the data returned by the instrument which measures acceleration and rotation. from Ingenuity. Navcam footage had already been lost at the end of Flight 6 and a software fix had been devised by ground crews. During Flight 53, too many frames would have been lost for said fix to do its job.
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