NASA's Mars Ingenuity Helicopter Contacted After Communication Dropout Caused By A Hill Ended
The 52nd flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took place back on April 26, 2023, but mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California lost contact with the helicopter as it descended toward the surface for landing.
The Ingenuity team expected the communications dropout because a hill stood between the helicopter’s landing location and the Perseverance rover’s position, blocking communication between the two. The rover acts as a radio relay between the helicopter and mission controllers at JPL. In anticipation of this loss of communications, the Ingenuity team had already developed re-contact plans for when the rover would drive back within range. Contact was re-established June 28 when Perseverance crested the hill and could see Ingenuity again.
More information are available in the links below:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-i...
https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/heli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/missio...
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/27539...
Credits:
NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
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