The rotorcraft went silent for nearly a full week—an 'agonizingly long time,' according to mission controllers, and it's a problem that could get worse.
But now, it seems Ingenuity isn’t interested in communicating with its engineering team at all; as of late, the Mars helicopter has only communicated with NASA scientists intermittently and unpredictably.The communication breakdown is making it difficult for the Ingenuity team to guide the craft around the Martian landscape—and crucially, both within range but safely away from the Perseverance rover, the real star of the Mars 2020 program.
A graphic showing Ingenuity’s location and Perseverance’s path close to the uncommunicative rotorcraft.On Sol 755, the team lost contact with the helicopter again, and there was radio silence for the next week . The team began to consider the possibility that Ingenuity had died. “In more than 700 sols operating the helicopter on Mars, not once had we ever experienced a total radio blackout,” Brown said in the.
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