Two months after its last contact, Ingenuity has phoned home and is now ready for its next flight - by AndyTomaswick
One of the most exciting success stories we’ve been able to report on repeatedly here at UT is that of the Ingenuity helicopter. Not only has it racked up several firsts for humanity, most notably the first powered flight of a craft on another planet, but it has provided both a new perspective and new scientific data to its operations team. It’s also consistently stayed ahead of its companion on the Red Planet – Perseverance, the rover it originally launched from.
Recently, one of those periods came to an end, with a 63-day silent period coming at the end of the helicopter’s 52nd flight. The flight took the helicopter over a hill out of the direct line of sight of Perseverance on April 26th. I then took the rover a full 63 days to get to the top of the hill, where it was able to reestablish a connection with its airborne partner on June 28th.
Since Ingenuity doesn’t have enough power to beam a signal all the way back to Earth, or even a satellite orbiting Mars, by itself, it has to relay all its communications through the much larger and more powerful rover. However, that means, occasionally, the operations team has to push past the limits of the rover’s effective communication range for Ingenuity to find a safe patch of ground to land on.
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