The Washington Post reports that the four-pound drone completed 72 flights before damaging its rotors during a landing last week.
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Tag: Communications Glitch
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Comes Back Online on Mars After Communications Glitch
SPACE reports that Ingenuity has officially “regained communication with ground control.” According to a January 20 NASA post, Perseverance “had conducted long-duration listening sessions to help pinpoint Ingenuity’s signal.” Everything “seemed fine during the probe’s 72nd hop on Mars’ red surface, as it successfully climbed to an expected maximum altitude of 40 feet (12 meters) and communicated its ascension status with Perseverance.” But, during descent, NASA said that “communications between the helicopter and rover terminated early, prior to touchdown.”
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