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Print Sunday is likely to be a long night for Qualcomm’s Dev Singh and Chris Pruetting. Shortly after midnight Pacific Time, mission control specialists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena expect to learn whether the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completed the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft ever on another planet. The silicon controlling navigation, stability, cameras and other functions on Ingenuity comes from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 801 processor the same chip found in the Samsung Galaxy S5 and other Android smartphones back in 2014-15. Singh, general manager of robotics, drones and intelligent machines, and Pruetting, a senior director in the government technologies group, will be anxiously waiting for news about whether this maiden flight was successful, and how the company’s processor performed. ....
To power the to-be historic flight, Qualcomm used a technology similar to that of a drone’s or iRobot vacuum. That technology, called the Qualcomm Flight Platform, is about the size of a credit card. A Southern California affair, Perseverance was built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena while Ingenuity’s technology was built in Sorrento Valley. The codes that make the rover helicopter’s flight possible will be sent from JPL to the Qualcomm-created platform ahead of time. The Mars Perseverance Rover successfully landed on the red planet but for Qualcomm’s robotics team, the mission is just beginning. ....
The first powered flight on another planet described as a Wright Brothers moment . Author: Mario Escovedo Updated: 1:50 PM PDT April 9, 2021 SAN DIEGO San Diego s Qualcomm engineers designed what s described as the heart and the brains of the Ingenuity helicopter which will make its first flight on Mars Sunday, April 11. This is the first powered flight on another planet. The Ingenuity helicopter will have the Qualcomm Flight Platform on board which includes a thumb-sized chipset processor and a credit card-sized flight platform. News 8 spoke with Chris Pruetting, Qualcomm s Senior Director of Strategic Operations in Qualcomm s Government Technologies Group. How do you fly on Mars? The previous rover missions gave us a pretty good understanding of the atmosphere and gravity and a whole host of factors that might come into play on Mars, Pruetting said. ....