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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 manage...

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 robotic...

Ingenuity is almost ready to fly. Image: mashable composite / Ian moore / NASA / JPL-CALTECH 2021-04-08 10:00:00 UTC On Earth, humans put more than a century of work into the art of flying. On Mars, we’re just getting started. NASA’s four-pound helicopter, Ingenuity, touched down on the the surface of Mars on April 3 and will begin test flights in early April. It will be the first time humans have flown anything on another planet.  In a nod to the Wright brothers' first flight, it’s carrying a tiny piece of the plane that flew at Kitty Hawk. If all goes well, Ingenuity coul...

San Diego company, best known for smartphone chips, supplied processors to a 4-pound drone headed to Mars tucked inside the Perseverance rover

NASA's Mars helicopter has San Diego brains NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which will attempt the first flight on another planet, is powered by a processor designed by San Diego's Qualcomm and last updated 2021-02-17 20:28:29-05 SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- From the minds of San Diegans to the craters of Mars. NASA's Perseverance rover is scheduled to land on the Red Planet on Thursday, with San Diegans playing an integral role in the key part of the mission. "This is the Wright Brothers moment," said Dev Singh, who directs robotics, drones and intelligent machines at San Diego-based Qualcomm. "It ...