https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends
NASA's history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than planned. While the helicopter remains upright and in communication with ground controllers, imagery of its Jan. 18 flight sent to Earth this week indicates one or more of its rotor blades sustained damage during landing, and it is no longer capable of flight.
Rest in power little guy
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Rest in power robokang
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this is why i can never hate NASA. they nail lots of shit.
unfortunately while they nail lots of shit, they didn't o-ring the challenger
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The really do seem to have some of their fricking best working on their mars robotics. They've consistently gotten years of extra service life out of their rovers
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Maybe they just drastically under promise all of their mars projects
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Like any good engineer, they internally have some expected range for life, give the brass the low end, and get applauded when it ends up lasting longer than the minimum. You don't want to give brass a range because they're stupid enough to punish you if your device ends up closer to the lower end of the range than the higher.
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Never A Straight Answer
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That was the mormons fault
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blade damage? ALIENS ATTACKED IT WITH A FRICKING SWORD!?
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no the mars s ate it
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Next rover needs to go there with a higher power laser so we can have Rorke's Drift on Mars.
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What's the problem? Get up there and fix it.
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Lemme just call up Elon and get on a rocket
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There's your problem
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based linux copter
Follower of Christ Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.
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RIP little guy
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It has served the humanity well.
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Why do robots on planets im not even on make me feel so sad when they shut down?
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let it blow itself up. first helicopter crash on mars, certainly not the last
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They're a bunch of kitty strags if they don't try to fly it again
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If they did that it would definitely break completely and then they wouldn't be able to fix it later
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you are also a kitty strag
i flew a LOT of RC helicopters with blade damage LOL it's not even a guarantee you'll have difficulty flying.
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How many did you fly on mars with a huge signal delay?
Frick you're r-slurred and dumb. You srsly think a bunch of phds wouldn't try to fly if they could.
Get your butt back to the stupid field you fly your drones and keep pretending your experience is relevant.
No one else thinks so
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NASA is extremely risk averse... the machine is already broken, and it can't serve a useful purpose on the ground, so why not try?
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I don't think they would try to fly it if they could, because they are actively avoiding trying. How is this not obvious to you right now?
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I have to assume it's self stabilizing
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Isnt it a physical problem? How would they fix it later? Even if there's a manned mission in our lifetimes, assuming they could locate it and it doesn't get buried under sediment or smth, would they seriously go out and try to fix some old drone lol?
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They know exactly where it is, and seeing an Ingenuity flight would be a great exhibit at the Mars Museum
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It'll be buried in rust by the time any human can land on Mars and waste all that time to retrieve it.
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just dig it out. corrosion doesn't seem to be a big issue https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20190027256/downloads/20190027256.pdf
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Yeah that's worth the money and resources within the next 50 years of human-laden Mars trips.
FLY THE FRICKER TIL IT DIES, THEN SHOVE IT IN A MUSEUM.
NASA has no balls.
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found the incel
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HOW MANY MARS HELICOPTERS HAVE YOU FLOWN B-WORD
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when elon flies up there next year he's gonna bring an extra blade
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Actually though like the frickin thing is already there, not like crashing it makes the situation any worse if the alternative is it sitting there. God NASA sucks butt.
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Is there a way to just try to fly it anyway and broadcast the video? If it's toast let's crash it.
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Blade damage more like brain damage, just land straight up r-slur
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If only it were so easy, comrade snappy
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This is good for cacodemons.
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dang you'd think they would account for that lmao
L nasa nerds
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