Nasa’s Mars helicopter goes on ‘stressful’ wild flight after malfunction

[helicon]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... -ingenuity

[smp]

Thanks very much for posting this, Michael!
I had not yet seen the report of this latest flight.

smp

[Graeme1858]

Flight 8 was a little less stressful!



Regards

Graeme

[smp]

Here's a late article from CNN:
"Mars helicopter takes it to the limit with more groundbreaking flights"

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/25/world/ma ... index.html

They mention a software update:
"Last week, the helicopter's team successfully deployed a flight software update to Ingenuity to permanently fix the issue, providing more reliability as future flights are planned."

smp

[helicon]

Here's a late article from CNN:
"Mars helicopter takes it to the limit with more groundbreaking flights"

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/25/world/ma ... index.html

They mention a software update:
"Last week, the helicopter's team successfully deployed a flight software update to Ingenuity to permanently fix the issue, providing more reliability as future flights are planned."

smp

Thanks Stephen, it seems like they have really been able to enhance the helicopter's performance in recent days.

[GCoyote]

Checking the terrain ahead of the rover, so it's basically a traffic helicopter!

[Ylem]

Glad it's flying again

[Graeme1858]

Flight 9, longest so far.