NASA re-establishes comms with Ingenuity Mars helicopter

[Jan]

Ingenuity Mars helicopter survives comms blackout

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) re-established communications with its Ingenuity Mars helicopter after six days of no contact.

The team's chief engineer Travis Brown explained that radio contact was lost for six sols — just less than six days and six hours — after Ingenuity's 49th flight.

 

[neoprema]

aliens repaired it

 

[Apogee]

The engineering behind this must be mind-blowing.

 

[Gordon_R]

It was designed as a techology demonstrator, with 5 flights planned in the first 30 days, so it is doing much better than expected.

 

[Death]

It was designed as a techology demonstrator, with 5 flights planned in the first 30 days, so it is doing much better than expected.

An absolute rock star. It's first flight was already ground breaking. To think it's done 49+ already is insane.