#skycrane — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #skycrane, aggregated by home.social.
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@PaulHammond51 reminds me that today is the 5th anniversary of #Perseverance landing on the surface of #Mars, hanging under the #SkyCrane as seen in this #OutOfThisWorld image it captured the moment the umbilical cord connecting them was cut, and the Sky Crane veered off to a heroic crash about 900m NW.
De-bayered, processed EDL_RUCAM
RMC: 0.0000 (prelanding, corrected)
Sol: 0 (corrected)
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00293/ids/edr/browse/edl/EUE_0293_0692945892_348ECM_N0090000EDLC00293_0050LUJ01.png
Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech / 65dBnoise -
@PaulHammond51 reminds me that today is the 5th anniversary of #Perseverance landing on the surface of #Mars, hanging under the #SkyCrane as seen in this #OutOfThisWorld image it captured the moment the umbilical cord connecting them was cut, and the Sky Crane veered off to a heroic crash about 900m NW.
De-bayered, processed EDL_RUCAM
RMC: 0.0000 (prelanding, corrected)
Sol: 0 (corrected)
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00293/ids/edr/browse/edl/EUE_0293_0692945892_348ECM_N0090000EDLC00293_0050LUJ01.png
Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech / 65dBnoise -
Using Multiple Quadcopters to Efficiently Lift Loads Together https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/using-multiple-quadcopters-to-efficiently-lift-loads-together/ #autonomousquadcopter #RobotsHacks #dronehacks #skycrane
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Using Multiple Quadcopters to Efficiently Lift Loads Together https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/using-multiple-quadcopters-to-efficiently-lift-loads-together/ #autonomousquadcopter #RobotsHacks #dronehacks #skycrane
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Using Multiple Quadcopters to Efficiently Lift Loads Together https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/using-multiple-quadcopters-to-efficiently-lift-loads-together/ #autonomousquadcopter #RobotsHacks #dronehacks #skycrane
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Using Multiple Quadcopters to Efficiently Lift Loads Together https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/using-multiple-quadcopters-to-efficiently-lift-loads-together/ #autonomousquadcopter #RobotsHacks #dronehacks #skycrane
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Nice talk by Dr. Nigar Shaji at IUCAA with first look at proposed ExoWorlds space telescope at L2 and Mars Landing Mission (MLM) EDL profile with Skycrane based approach to lower rover.
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Nice talk by Dr. Nigar Shaji at IUCAA with first look at proposed ExoWorlds space telescope at L2 and Mars Landing Mission (MLM) EDL profile with Skycrane based approach to lower rover.
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A spaceworthy valve
The valve that helped soft-land both #Curiosity and #Perseverance with a #SkyCrane
https://www.nasa.gov/technology/tech-transfer-spinoffs/controlled-propulsion-for-gentle-landings/
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A spaceworthy valve
The valve that helped soft-land both #Curiosity and #Perseverance with a #SkyCrane
https://www.nasa.gov/technology/tech-transfer-spinoffs/controlled-propulsion-for-gentle-landings/
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Here is something that looks like one of those thermal blanket fragments from the #SkyCrane which brought #Perseverance onto the Martian surface and then rocketed away and crashed about 670m NW of the Octavia E. Butler landing site.
Only... that crash site is now about 6.2km ESE of #Perseverance
Animated zoom. Map follows.
NAVCAM_RIGHT
looking W (270°) from RMC 48.3714
Sol 1018, LMST: 14:54:00Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01018/ids/edr/browse/ncam/NRF_1018_0757321766_659ECM_N0483714NCAM03018_07_195J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise -
Here is something that looks like one of those thermal blanket fragments from the #SkyCrane which brought #Perseverance onto the Martian surface and then rocketed away and crashed about 670m NW of the Octavia E. Butler landing site.
Only... that crash site is now about 6.2km ESE of #Perseverance
Animated zoom. Map follows.
NAVCAM_RIGHT
looking W (270°) from RMC 48.3714
Sol 1018, LMST: 14:54:00Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01018/ids/edr/browse/ncam/NRF_1018_0757321766_659ECM_N0483714NCAM03018_07_195J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise -
An example of an RTE image showing bright/shinny objects scattered around the Sky Crane crash site.
The image shows the upper right corner of the original.
Processed, cropped HELI_RTE
RMC: 25.0001, Sol: 403, LMST: 10:03:09
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00403/ids/edr/browse/heli/HSF_0403_0702707491_147ECM_N0250001HELI00000_000085J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise -
@65dBnoise I'm always amazed that the engineers manged to persuade the management to even consider #SkyCrane as a valid solution - amazing stuff :)
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@65dBnoise I'm always amazed that the engineers manged to persuade the management to even consider #SkyCrane as a valid solution - amazing stuff :)
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The #MarsHelicopter flew its 24th flight on Sol 398; images were received in #NASA's raw image storage today, but had problems in the metadata. ImageID and Sol metadata were just corrected by #NASA. LMST was correct before. My mistake.
Here are some cropped parts showing fragments the #SkyCrane at a distance, and a possible one close.
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Hackaday Links: October 3, 2021 - It’s one thing to speculate about what’s happening with the Mars helicopter Ingenu... - https://hackaday.com/2021/10/03/hackaday-links-october-3-2021/ #hackadaycolumns #hackadaylinks #factorytour #irradiation #helicopter #swashplate #ingenuity #pcbdesign #resonance #adafruit #skycrane #antenna #anthrax #course #tower #eda
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Demonstrating The Mars Rover Pendulum Problem With A Drone On Earth - The sky crane system used on the Perseverance and Curiosity Mars rovers is a challenging control s... - https://hackaday.com/2021/02/25/demonstrating-the-mars-rover-pendulum-problem-with-a-drone-on-earth/ #flightcontrollerdrehmflight #flightdynamics #perseverance #dronehacks #quadcopter #skycrane #space #drone