NASA's helicopter test on Mars
Posted by
Chris in Tampa on 4/18/2021, 8:17 pm
It's supposed to happen early Monday morning.
https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/293/why-we-choose-to-try-our-first-helicopter-flight-on-monday/
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/04/18/nasa-schedules-first-mars-helicopter-test-flight-for-monday/
NASA TV:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ
"After some long-distance troubleshooting, NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter will attempt the first flight of its kind on another world Monday in a demonstration that could open the door to a new era of interplanetary aerial scouts.
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California uplinked commands for Ingenuity's test flight Sunday, setting the stage for takeoff on a brief up-and-down hop at 3:31 a.m. EDT (0731 GMT) Monday.
It will take nearly three hours for ground teams to receive data confirming the outcome of the flight. The signals will bounce from the helicopter to the Perseverance rover, which released the drone onto the Martian surface April 3, then to a orbiter flying overhead to relay the data back to Earth.
NASA TV will broadcast live coverage from JPL's operations center beginning at 6:15 a.m. EDT (1015 GMT) Monday as officials await data on the results of Ingenuity's hop. Once the data starts flowing, engineers will analyze the signals for the telltale signature the the helicopter took and landed successfully.
Then images will start streaming back to Earth from cameras on-board Ingenuity, and cameras on the Perseverance rover observing the flight from a range of about 200 feet (60 meters).
NASA officials expect the fully automated flight Monday to last around 40 seconds as the drone takes off to an altitude of about 10 feet (3 meters), momentarily hovers there, then rotates to point in a different direction before landing back on its four carbon-fiber legs." |
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