NASA’s ‘Ingenuity’ Helicopter Regains Contact with ‘Perseverance’ Rover on Mars After Two Months: Future Flight Possible

2023-07-01 02:38:45
LOS ANGELES, June 30 (Xinhua) — NASA announced Friday that NASA’s “Ingenuity” helicopter on Mars has regained contact with the Mars rover “Perseverance” following two months of radio silence. Ingenuity completed its 52nd Mars flight on April 26, but mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California lost contact with the helicopter as it was descending to the surface for landing. The helicopter lands and the Perseverance rover’s location, which hinders communication between the two. The lander acts as a radio relay unit between the helicopter and JPL’s mission controllers. Communication restoration was achieved on June 28 when Perseverance reached the hill and might see Ingenuity. Again, according to NASA. NASA said that if the rest of Ingenuity’s health checks are optimistic, the helicopter may be flying once more within the next two weeks. Ingenuity reached Jezero crater on surface of Mars on February 18, 2021, and is attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover. This helicopter is a technological experimental unit to experience the first flight of a motorized vehicle on another planet.
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