NASA’s mini-helicopter Ingenuity on Mars loses contact, bringing bad news
NASA announced that it has been unable to maintain communication with its small helicopter Ingenuity during its 72nd flight. The space agency’s engineers are currently making efforts to restore contact, as the communication abruptly ceased on Thursday while the craft was descending from a test flight, according to NASA’s statement on Friday. The large drone-like Ingenuity had arrived on Mars in 2021 with the Perseverance rover, becoming the first motorized craft to fly autonomously on another planet. The information of the helicopter’s flight is transmitted back to the ground via…
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