it will work great until the little hamster gets tired
SPACE hamster, sir. Space hamster.
Matt_W
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Here it is with its debris shield dropped, still attached to the rover waiting to be deployed.
Interesting tidbit:
A small amount of the material that covered one of the wings of the Wright brothersâ aircraft, known as the Flyer, during the first flight is now aboard Ingenuity. An insulative tape was used to wrap the small swatch of fabric around a cable located underneath the helicopterâs solar panel. The Wrights used the same type of material â an unbleached muslin called âPride of the Westâ â to cover their glider and aircraft wings beginning in 1901. The Apollo 11 crew flew a different piece of the material, along with a small splinter of wood from the Wright Flyer, to the Moon and back during their iconic mission in July 1969.
First mission of a manned mission is to clean up all the shit that weâve been littering Mars with. Câmon, people.
Spacex launch attempt canceled because FAA person couldnât get there? Embarassing. Couldnât they get there a bit later?
Theyâre having another go. Still a while to launch yet though:
Oh dear. Stream was not great, very low ground visibilty, but seemed to explode right after re-ignition.
Itâs like an indie movie with no budget for CGI so they fired up the fog machine!
On to SN15.
Quite tempted by the SpaceX barista job :)
Firmware update is required, and uploading a firmware to Mars takes time.
Also, anyone else concerned the solar panels are already dusty? It doesnât have a means of clearing them off, does it?
That does seem sub optimal. Hopefully they remembered that Mars was dusty. I wonder what the software issue is.
Somebody accidentally used Flash.
It would be pretty great if Ingenuityâs UI came up at NASA with update required - downloadingâŚ13bytes / sol.
The rover has a dust blower. Maybe it lands near the rover and the rover cleans it.
I would have imagined, now the payload is deployed, mission control would not want Ingenuity anywhere near Perseverance for fear of catastrophic damage to the rover impacting primary mission in the event Ingenuityâs flights fail.
