NASA Ingenuity Helicopter Achieves Another Mind Blowing Record

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[onebylandtwoifbysearunifby]

The limiting factor on flight time is the heating of bearings and motor components. Ingenuity wasn't designed for long flights, so no cooling was done. It's amazing it's flying that far. JPL did a fantastic job on this design.

[anthonyb]

I wrote the CFD and the Simulator used to validate the helicopter designs. Thank you for saying nice things about our helicopter.

[colorbugoriginals]

This is even more impressive than I expected.

[skng]

It's amazing what $85 million will get you these days. To me it was worth every penny. Keep on flying Ingenuity!

[slap_my_hand]

I really hope that they will keep Ingenuity alive for as long as possible. This seems like an amazing opportunity to get experience for future airborne missions on other planets.

[theScales]

It may be by necessity, but the fact that Perseverance and Ingenuity stick together is adorable

[onebylandtwoifbysearunifby]

Contrary to popular belief, Ingenuity wasn't designed for this. It has no hazard avoidance software in the ground recognition program (which is being used for the first time itself), and no active cooling in the motor/ power train, so run times are thermal limited, not communication limited.

It was the Perseverance team that notified Ingenuity/JPL they wanted an extended mission with actual support functions from Ingenuity. It was not a concealed plan from the start..

It really was a complete unknown whether this thing was even going to fly. One of the JPL engineers fought for months to have the color camera included, despite weighing a gram or so. That's how knife edge Ingenuity design is.

(I didn't think it was even possible until the vacuum chamber tests. Rather, it was after they switched to computer controlled pitch adjustments, since no human is capable of flying it. Still, lots of doubts even then. Proved me wrong.
That JPL team really did a hell of a job. Glad they're getting recognition for this.)

[paulwallis]

Good risk management, too. Scout first before risking the rover.

[mikemathews]

Those tiny solar panels have done a serious amount of work.

[jryer]

Extraordinary that we are watching a mini-helicopter fly around on a DIFFRENT planet.

[liesdamnlies]

When you build your tech demonstrator so well it’s actually the first production unit.

[ThatCrazyKid]

I find it funny they named the lake bed Jezero, it literally means 'lake' in Serbian, so it's lake Lake to us haha

[mtgradwell]

"The algorithm assumes that the terrain is flat" - I can imagine the Flat Mars Society having a field day with that one 🤣

[llongone]

This is so f**king cool! Literally exploring another world.

[HappyBear]

When having a bad day the introduction and content of these videos makes me happy.

[hawgryder]

Ingenuity has really stole the show, I think Perseverance is jealous.

[MisakaMikotoDesu]

Remember when this was just supposed to be a proof of concept and not an actual scientific tool?

[datdudeinred]

I am an Instrumentation & control engineer and I even took aeronautics & automobile as optional subs so I exactly know how difficult it is to calibrate a SINGLE sensor with the instruments and mechanical parts like rotors [for speed, angle of attack etc.], actuators etc And they are doing this perfectly with not 1 sensor but 10s to 1000s of different sensors and doing it with insane mission critical algorithms. ITS BASICALLY GODLIKE WORK. & its even more lovely to see that people from all over the world like Indians, chinese, europeans worked their a** off to get ingenuity & & everything they sent ever into space work so flawlessly BRAVO ❤️🙌👏🏻

[haribo]

Love your video's Anton. To be called a wonderful person and then learn something afterwards always makes my day. Keep being the wonderful person you are.

[punkypinko]

I fly RC quadcopters and helicopters as a minor hobby. Anyone who does this knows how things can go wrong. Even if the flight goes well, the terrain you land on can really cause problems when you land. And they're doing it remotely ... on Mars. This is amazing.