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Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again

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Re: Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again

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Post by rubinlinux »

qwertox wrote: post #77
synapsomorphy wrote: post #19

I just interned at the NASA office (at Ames) that designed large chunks of and did a lot of flight planning / analysis for Ingenuity. It had some really awesome people behind it and its success inspired a number of new Mars rotorcraft missions (rotorcraft will be an integral part of Mars Sample Return). Flight is going to be a huge part of future solar system exploration efforts and Ingenuity paved the way. o7

> o7 I never came across this emoticon, but with what you wrote, its meaning became clear immediately. It's perfect.

It is a very common theme in Elite Dangerous, to the point that the station controller will sometimes say "Oh seven, commander" to you.

Re: Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again

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Post by cybrox »

bredren wrote: post #67

Was the singular focus on the Wright Brothers' contributions to flight and ingenuity a fair one? I had thought there was some shift in the Wright Brothers' attribution to flight in general. It seemed like better recognition of the contributions by Samuel Langley and Glenn Curtiss' to flight technology were along with acknowledgement of the WB's own efforts to boost their legacy might have checked a decision to keep p…

It was not about the contribution but about the moment.

The Wright brothers achieved the first powered flight on earth and Ingenuity achieved the first powered flight on another planet.

I think people are well aware that it's neither the Wright brothers nor ingenuity as a singular entity that did what ultimately concluded in that achievement but rather the scientific effort of humanity as a whole.

Re: Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again

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Post by cybrox »

vpribish wrote: post #100
bredren wrote: post #67

Was the singular focus on the Wright Brothers' contributions to flight and ingenuity a fair one? I had thought there was some shift in the Wright Brothers' attribution to flight in general. It seemed like better recognition of the contributions by Samuel Langley and Glenn Curtiss' to flight technology were along with acknowledgement of the WB's own efforts to boost their legacy might have checked a decision to keep p…

Where did they talk about the Wrights? This on the wrong article?

It's part of the video of Bill Nelsons speech that's embedded in the article.

Re: Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again

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Post by anigbrowl »

It's pretty great that the point of failure is one of the prop blades vs the cheap-as-chips electronic components. Of course I'm sorry to see it out of commission, but istm they can keep using the cameras, both to gather some information about the weather and to see how long the various components & batteries keep working - at least until it's time to move the rover out of range. Since flight is no longer an option I wonder if the CPU and MCUs can be repurposed to some other sort of task like image analysis.

All in all I think Ingenuity's mission history is a strong argument for experimentation over total advance planning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)#Opposit...

Re: Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again

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Post by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA »

subterrane wrote: post #20
bigbillheck wrote: post #4

Designed for five, lasted 72, not too shabby.

I dunno, feels like they overshot it. They should talk to the engineers that made my washing machine. That thing was designed to outlast the warranty and, I'll be damned, they nailed it.

Only so much genius to go around.

Re: Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again

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Post by whamlastxmas »

closewith wrote: post #99
farnsworth wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same, I thought I was terminally online but I've never seen this before.

Oh, God, these comments may be the trigger to my mid-life crisis.

I remember being a terminally online teen thinking i would never fall out of “what’s hip” bc i enjoyed being online so much at the time. I have since never once installed or used TikTok and I have no idea what’s happening I am sure

Re: Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again

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Post by Angostura »

farnsworth wrote: post #78
qwertox wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> o7 I never came across this emoticon, but with what you wrote, its meaning became clear immediately. It's perfect.

Same, I thought I was terminally online but I've never seen this before.

See it quite a lot in Twitch chat

Re: Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again

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Post by datameta »

rubinlinux wrote: post #101
qwertox wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> o7 I never came across this emoticon, but with what you wrote, its meaning became clear immediately. It's perfect.

It is a very common theme in Elite Dangerous, to the point that the station controller will sometimes say "Oh seven, commander" to you.

Also ubiquitous in Eve Online since about 15 years ago. Did it originate in Elite Dangerous?
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