Just so that we don't forget little #MarsHelicopter #Ingenuity that's now retiring up at Valinor Hills, in the Neretva Vallis ancient riverbed, in NW Jezero crater.

180 processed and colorized HELI_NAV images, played at 5fps
RMC: 28.0001, Sol: 423
LMST: 11:52:43
UTC: 2022-04-29T07:42:09

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#Flight28 #NASA #Solarocks #Space

@personifieddevil @BrodieOnLinux yes and no.

  • You know.how much old stuff is still being deployed?

The #SpaceShuttle program got aborted because they couldn't get new old stock of radiation hardened chips, and to this day you have stuff like #ISA cards and #i486 systems in many #CriticalInfrastructure because noone can or wants to reimplement systems.

  • GE literally used #PDP11's to automatically control their nuclear reactor designs because as old as they are the design has been known to work and re-certifying something new is basically almost impossible and not financially feasible.

And believe it or not, #git may be part of the toolchain for something that runs #VxWorks and goes into space:

  • Stuff like the #MarsHelicopter being cobbled together from modern #Smartphone parts is more of an accident than actual planning, because it was a severly constrained effort.

As for #Rust, I rarely see benefits outweight the costs

Kevin Karhan :verified: (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] Personally I'm tending more to go into the camp of *"please just make a #fork in #Rust and once it's feature-complete we can migrate to it"*… - Cuz rarely do I see *"just redo [this] in Rust!"* as a solution to a problem. That doesn't mean I'm against using Rust at all, and @[email protected] is a good example what can be done… - I'm just pragmatic in that *"reinventing the wheel"* is rarely a solution to *"bumpy ride"* when something is hard-mounted to a chassis and doesn't even have air-filled rubber tires...

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Where no rover has gone before: how Mars helicopters enable a new era of exploration

One of NASA’s greatest successes of the 21st century thus far came in a very unexpected form: a four-pound helicopter called Ingenuity. Ingenuity created a new Wright Brothers moment when it flew t…

SpaceNews

While waiting for news from #Ingenuity in the past, new ways were devised to keep the excitement high. Here, #Ingenuity was spotted from 480m afar after #Flight48 , by flickering before/after images captured by #Perseverance 11 sols apart.

Animated MCZ RIGHT, LEFT
FL: 110mm
Sols: 737, 748, RMC: 37.0000
Originals: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00748/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_0748_0733346536_832EBY_N0370000ZCAM05142_1100LMJ01.png
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00737/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0737_0732365748_818EBY_N0370000ZCAM08746_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#MarsHelicopter #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

#Ingenuity's #Flight47 captured from 120m away by #Perseverance on Sol 729. The camera was fixed and set to a 34mm focal length to capture as much of the action as possible, so resolution is not great, but this version zooms in and follows the #MarsHelicopter while it flies across the field, hopefully adding to the visual result.

MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 34mm
Sol: 729, RMC: 36.0000, LMST: 16:07:03

One original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00729/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0729_0731670427_773EBY_N0360000ZCAM01529_0340LMJ01.png

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

"NASA believes it understands why Ingenuity crashed on Mars" by @arstechnica / @sciguyspace - First ever investigation into an aircraft crash on another planet has concluded. #NASA #MarsHelicopter🚁 #Ingenuity had difficulty auto-navigating on flat featureless terrain. Unable to detect and counteract its wind drift, it touched down with horizontal motion that tipped it over, and damaged all its rotor blades on impact, and ripped one off. https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/nasa-believes-it-understands-why-ingenuity-crashed-on-mars/ #Mars #aviation #avgeek #drone
NASA believes it understands why Ingenuity crashed on Mars

Engineers are already beginning to plan for possible follow-on missions.

Ars Technica
NASA believes it understands why Ingenuity crashed on Mars

Engineers are already beginning to plan for possible follow-on missions.

Ars Technica
사상 처음으로 다른 행성에서 항공사고가 났습니다. #MarsHelicopter
2021년에 화성에서 임무를 시작한 무인 헬리콥터 NASA Ingenuity는 예정된 몇 개월간의 임무를 마치고 무기한의 연장 임무를 수행중이었습니다.
Ingenuity는 카메라를 이용해 지형을 판단하는데, 인식 문제로 기울어진 표면에 착륙했습니다.
2800RPM이라는 로터 회전률은 로터를 부러뜨리기에 충분했고, 이제 Ingenuity는 날지 못합니다.
아직 확실한 정황은 더 조사해봐야겠지만, 이게 일단 확인된 내용 전부이며, 컨퍼런스에서 발표가 진행되었습니다. 컨퍼런스 내용은 밑 링크에 있습니다.
https://youtu.be/p45y3ea9vHY
AGU24 Press conference: The First Aircraft Crash Investigation on Another World (Ingenuity on Mars)

YouTube

Talking about #Ingenuity

"[T]he helicopter still beams weather and avionics test data to the #Perseverance rover about once a week." 😍 😍 💕 (last heard from it on Nov 21, Sol 1330)

A detailed assessment of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s final flight on Jan. 18, 2024, which will be published in the next few weeks as a NASA technical report.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-performs-first-aircraft-accident-investigation-on-another-world/

#MarsHelicopter #NASA #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

NASA Performs First Aircraft Accident Investigation on Another World

The review takes a close look the final flight of the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which was the first aircraft to fly on another world.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

We might as well now say goodbye to #Ingenuity, for it will be very long till #Perseverance has an opportunity to be in radio range with the #MarsHelicopter again, or have a line-of-sight to it.

As seen in the map, this is the closest the rover will get to the heli being visible (light toned area) for several years.

𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐲𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫!

#QGIS #Mars2020 #NASA #Solarocks #Space #PDSAnalystNotebook