#flight49 — Public Fediverse posts
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#Ingenuity is in contact with #Perseverance. We know that because it just sent in some images from #flight46 and #Flight49.
What we don't know yet is whether #Flight53 has taken place as planned, last Saturday. Rising temperature and dropping pressure, both at night and during daylight, have decreased atmospheric density to below 0.0145kg/m3, the limit for low rpm rotor speed. Maybe this development caused a delay?
Hopefully we'll know soon.
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#Ingenuity will break all its records (except distance) on #Flight49, which is scheduled for tomorrow, the earliest: a record speed of 6.5m/s and a record altitude of 16m (at the end of flight). Announcement here: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/453/flight-49-preview-by-the-numbers
The #MarsHelicopter will do a "pop-up" from 12m to 16m at the end of the flight; such a maneuver has been mentioned in the past as a way to overcome radio coverage problems, but it may not be the case now.
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