Goodbye little Mars helicopter

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Goodbye little Mars helicopter

A 1.8kg Nasa helicopter that ran an unprecedented six dozen flights on Mars will fly no more, the US space agency said Thursday.

During Ingenuity’s most recent flight, on Jan. 18, one of the helicopter’s blades might have struck the ground while coming in for landing, permanently grounding it, Nasa said in an announcement Thursday.

[Bloomberg]

 

[r00igev@@r]

Someone tripping over the Ethernet cable even happens at NASA.

 

[WollieVerstege]

Getting some serious Wall-e vibes.

 

[borro]

 

[Kosmik]

They were expecting only a few short flights, that little explorer gave so much more and only stopped working due to pilot/software error or bad winds.

Another oppi.

 

[Gordon_R]

I somehow missed this thread. Scott Manley video:

 

[Gordon_R]

First aircraft crash investigation on another planet: