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First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]

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Re: First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]

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Post by dev_tty01 »

qwertox wrote: post #31

It made me so sad seeing them cheering and clapping, but not getting up and hugging each other :( So much happiness without the ability to vent it. Such a historical moment.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. I've worked on a small dedicated hardware/software team with a multi-year focus overcoming challenging technical obstacles. We certainly weren't flying a helicopter on a remote planet, but the closeness and shared vision were similar. They know what they did and they know that they did it together. While hugging and other demonstrative behaviors are wonderful and should be cherished, they are trivial compared to the internal feelings of accomplishment and gratitude to have been a part of such of an effort with such a talented team. Those feelings and their shared bonds will stay with them forever.

Re: First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]

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Post by trothamel »

From https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopte... , the International Civil Aviation organization gave Ingenuity the the designator the aircraft type designator IGY, the call sign INGENUITY, and designated the Wright Brothers Field in Jezero Crater on mars as JZRO.

Hopefully that last one sticks when commercial service begins.

Re: First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]

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Post by elpatoisthebest »

monkeynotes wrote: post #52
qwertox wrote: post #31

It made me so sad seeing them cheering and clapping, but not getting up and hugging each other :( So much happiness without the ability to vent it. Such a historical moment.

I agree, the one person who was excited looked like she stifled herself because the energy in the room was so low. Considering what they just achieved, and how much work they put into the project... I mean, we celebrate more when we have a successful sprint.

She did mention it, but they were probably told not to get too close for their COVID protocol. And watching her speech, she didn't seem stifled at all, she is so enthusiastic.

"We don't know from history what Wilbur and Orville did after their first successful flight, but I imagine the two brothers hugged each other. Well, you know I'm hugging you virtually. And, you guys who haven't been with me for 4, 5, 6 years...if it weren't for COVID-19 you guys don't have a chance of me (I think she was saying they wouldn't be able to stop her from hugging them) but I cannot give you a hug, so this is all I can do. I'm giving you the hugs."

Re: First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]

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Post by techdragon »

_rpd wrote: post #22
techdragon wrote: post #14

Awesome! Well deserved congratulations all round to the team! Dare mighty things indeed. Only negative thing I can think of is that I really hope the Perseverance rover has better video onboard just not transmitted yet. Maybe they will release it during the press conference later today. The one they showed was a little clipped. It had spin up. then it sort of cuts to the mid flight and then cuts to the spin down... a…

Yes, higher res, higher fps is coming, but will take a couple of days. I hope the landing was smooth and we can look forward to lots of aerial photos from Ingenuity.

As I expected, I just didn't catch any mention of this during the Live stream, I figured I might have missed some mention of it since since I tuned in right about when they started getting data frames from the DSN.

I figured the team had decided to uplink only the most essential frames for this test flight (spin up, hover, and spin down) and send the low-res preview versions of them back in order to get the data back as fast as possible before a much slower upload of the full mastcam higher resolution video frames.

Whats extra amazing here is this is High Definition (possibly even in 3D) video sent to us from a nuclear powered rover on Mars!

Re: First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]

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Post by jedimastert »

qwertox wrote: post #31

It made me so sad seeing them cheering and clapping, but not getting up and hugging each other :( So much happiness without the ability to vent it. Such a historical moment.

Sadly relevent xkcd

https://xkcd.com/2419/

The title text hit me a little harder than I was expecting:

> I've never been that big of a hug person, but it turns out I'm not quite this small of a hug person either.

Re: First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]

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Post by behnamoh »

The universe is 13.8 billion years old. It took about 7.3 billion years for the Earth to be formed. Then it took roughly 4.48 billion years for the first Hominins to wander on the planet. They evolved for almost 5.998 million years. Then they had small civilizations in the past 0.002 million years. They started flying in the past 0.0001 million years. 0.00005 million years later they landed on the moon. Almost 0.00005 million years after that, the flew a machine over another planet.

Let that sink in.

Re: First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]

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Post by graderjs »

It's cool. And surprising to me how young the team is. Contrast to the other videos I've seen of NASA "mission control" form the 60s etc.

Something transformational for me seeing this group of super young people achieve so much. Inspiring and hopeful and more :)

Re: First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]

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Post by pelagicdev »

graderjs wrote: post #68

It's cool. And surprising to me how young the team is. Contrast to the other videos I've seen of NASA "mission control" form the 60s etc. Something transformational for me seeing this group of super young people achieve so much. Inspiring and hopeful and more :)

The average age of mission control during the Apollo missions was around 26...

Re: First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]

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Post by Clewza313 »

trothamel wrote: post #62

From https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopte... , the International Civil Aviation organization gave Ingenuity the the designator the aircraft type designator IGY, the call sign INGENUITY, and designated the Wright Brothers Field in Jezero Crater on mars as JZRO. Hopefully that last one sticks when commercial service begins.

The first letters (at least one, often but not always two) of any ICAO airport code represent the country it's in, and by convenient coincidence, the only three unused letters are I, J and X. I personally would probably have plumped for X as in extraterrestrial, but Xxxx codes are already frequently used for unofficial codes like train stations, so maybe someday Mars will indeed be J or JZ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICAO_airport_code

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