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Posted on 1/25/24 at 3:12 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Posted on 1/25/24 at 3:15 pm to cgrand
Ebay got those replacement blades, free over night shipping.
Posted on 1/25/24 at 3:19 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
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How does 72 flights only equal 2 hours of total time. That's some short arse flights.
1.66 minutes per flight? How much did we pay for this drone?
Come on Nasa, that's rookie numbers. Put on your big boy pants and fly the hell out of that little drone.
Was there any scientific value learned from these flights?
Posted on 1/25/24 at 3:21 pm to cgrand
That picture was taken somewhere in Australia. Suckers.
Posted on 1/25/24 at 3:51 pm to cgrand
Must have found more pyramids.
Posted on 1/25/24 at 3:59 pm to PoppaD
Sounds more like it was just doing some hoppin’ around a few feet at a time.
Posted on 1/25/24 at 4:00 pm to cgrand
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the shite that we can do continues to amaze me
Imagine if the rest of society had the heart, hunger and passion as these scientists, like they did decades ago. There are an astronomical amount of things standing in the way and not getting into that…:but sad to think what this country could be if we all had this desire and passion
Posted on 1/25/24 at 4:25 pm to chinhoyang
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the shite that we can do continues to amaze me
but Baton Rouge can't fix a pothole
They're not the same people doing it.
YouTube:ISMO | Man On The Moon
Posted on 1/25/24 at 4:52 pm to PoppaD
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Put on your big boy pants and fly the hell out of that little drone.
They did. That’s why it finally failed. No telling how many years that copter could’ve lasted. After the original mission was labeled a success, they sent it out on more and more challenging flights to test the limit of what it could survive.
Posted on 1/25/24 at 4:57 pm to cgrand
That's pretty awesome.
Posted on 1/25/24 at 6:12 pm to PoppaD
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Was there any scientific value learned from these flights?
It was such an overwhelming success, they are now designing larger helicopters to cover more area of Mars in future missions.
Posted on 1/25/24 at 7:56 pm to Corinthians420
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This progress was aided by NASA Administrator Dan Goldin and other agency leaders who, in 1993, developed initiatives such as the Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Aerospace Academy. The program was designed for pre-collegiate minority and female students. NASA also established university research center relationships with historically black colleges and universities in 1995.
NASA since the 1970's could not match salaries with the contractors, and as a consequence, got the bottom of the class more often than not. Tack on affirmative action, not only for minorities and women, but also hiring from lesser engineering schools to get political brownie points, and you have the NASA of the 1980s through the present that is entirely propped up by contractors. All engineering heavy lifting at NASA is done by the contractors. The contractors are there to take the blame when NASA screws up as well. One of my buddies made a decent return over the years betting long on contractors who took the fall for the government on various contracts. Buy right after the news hits, the hold long.
In my near-half century engineering career, the the most grossly incompetent engineers I worked with were at the US EPA, but there were some NASA engineers hot on their heels for the title. And for the record, incompetence doesn't know race or sex, some of those cats were white or Asian males, but when you double down and hire on the basis of sex and race, it doesn't get any better either.
Posted on 1/25/24 at 7:58 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
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How does 72 flights only equal 2 hours of total time
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some short arse flights
Posted on 1/25/24 at 8:00 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
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How does 72 flights only equal 2 hours of total time. That's some short arse flights
Well, consider that it's been there three years, it had probably 2-3 years from start of payload assembly to arrival on Mars, and it was likely something like a seven year design program, plus the environmental factors (it is very cold there, hard on batteries, as Chicago-area Tesla pilots can testify) and this adds up to an incredible achievement with technology that is now near-15 years old. Japan just face planted on the moon with much newer tech. 'Merica!
Posted on 2/28/24 at 11:15 am to cgrand
the final resting spot of ingenuity has been located.
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If you look close enough, you can see the #MarsHelicopter just left of center, a speck-like figure amid a field of sand ripples. On Feb. 21, @NASAPersevere captured 67 images for this mosaic from about 1,365 ft (415 m) away using its Mastcam-Z camera.
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The #MarsHelicopter's rotor blades were damaged on its 72nd and last flight on Jan. 18. The team nicknamed the spot "Valinor Hills" after the fictional location in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novels.
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On Feb. 24, @NASAPersevere spotted Ingenuity using its Remote Microscopic Imager (RMI) camera. About 15 meters to the west of the helicopter's location is a portion of one of the rotor blades. The team believes the blade detached near the end of the helicopter's final flight.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:18 pm to cgrand
Better not recover any Martian deer with it, though.
Posted on 2/28/24 at 12:19 pm to cgrand
Why has the tinfoil hat brigade left that project largely unattacked?
This post was edited on 2/28/24 at 12:20 pm
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