Admin Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 Ingenuity sits in the middle of a field at Mars’ Jezero crater while NASA engineers on Earth scramble to fix its software. | NASA/JPL The first flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter was delayed again after running into a glitch in the rotorcraft’s flight control software during tests last week. The mini helicopter remains grounded on the surface of Mars’ Jezero Crater while it waits for engineers to tweak, test, and reinstall the software. NASA said it will come up with a new date next week for the inaugural flight test. Ingenuity, the four-pound helicopter that arrived on Mars on February 18th with its parent rover, Perseverance, is nine days into a monthlong test window that began when its four little legs touched the Martian surface for the first time on April 4th. The helicopter has been going through a series of tests and checkouts before flying, which... Continue reading… View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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