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NASA’s Ingenuity has taken to the sky again but this flight, its sixth, was not the smooth sailing the Mars helicopter has experienced previously. An unexpected problem put the rotocopter at risk, causing it to lurch for a brief wild ride, but it "muscled through it" according to Ingenuitys chief pilot, managing to land within 5 meters (16 feet) of its intended landing zone. During the flight, ingenuity’s navigation system glitched and that led the helicopter to begin tilting back and forth...

NASA/JPL-Caltech On its ambitious sixth flight, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity encountered an airborne navigation glitch that caused it to tilt back and forth while making unplanned velocity changes, but the small drone-like craft was still able to land safely, mission managers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena said today. The sixth flight of the history-making helicopter — the first to perform controlled flight on another world — was planned as one of its most daring excursions to da...

By Bill Galluccio May 28, 2021 The helicopter on NASAs Mars rover Perseverance had a scare during its sixth test flight. The Ingenuity helicopter ran into problems shortly after taking off when a navigation error caused it to lose control while it was 33 feet off the ground. Officials at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the issue occurred when a photo taken from an onboard camera failed to register in the crafts navigation system. That caused a chain reaction, as all subsequent images loa...

By Bill Galluccio May 28, 2021 The helicopter on NASAs Mars rover Perseverance had a scare during its sixth test flight. The Ingenuity helicopter ran into problems shortly after taking off when a navigation error caused it to lose control while it was 33 feet off the ground. Officials at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the issue occurred when a photo taken from an onboard camera failed to register in the crafts navigation system. That caused a chain reaction, as all subsequent images loa...

The helicopter managed to land about 16 feet from its intended touchdown site.

According to Grip, the glitch occurred roughly 54 seconds into the flight, when a constant stream of camera images — snapped at about 30 pictures per second and fed into the helicopters navigation system — was interrupted. The glitch caused only one image to be lost. And while that seems like a minor issue, it caused all subsequent images to have inaccurate timestamps, which are used by the helicopters navigation system to determine its location, speed and positioning. Grip said the helicop...

By City News Service TOPSHOT-US-SPACE-AEROSPACE-NASA-MARS PASADENA (CNS) - On its ambitious sixth flight, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity encountered an airborne navigation glitch that caused it to tilt back and forth while making unplanned velocity changes, but the small drone-like craft was still able to land safely, mission managers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena said today. The sixth flight of the history-making helicopter -- the first to perform controlled flight on another world ...

On the 91st Martian day, or sol, of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter performed its sixth flight.