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NASA loses contact with Ingenuity Mars helicopter (www.space.com)

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[–] Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So basically 72 flights into it’s 5 flight mission it went to far over the horizon and lost line of sight. So they have to drive over to it to re-establish communication.

They’ve done good already, they don’t need to go this hard.
They went so hard they went over the horizon and lost coms.
Because it’s autonomous it’s likely still operational, they just have to get close to it.

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