After reviewing data from a previous test, the team behind NASA Ingenuity helicopter made a plan to prepare it to take off on Mars. While a schedule for its flight test is still pending, the team is modifying and reinstalling the helicopter’s flight control software to deal with a “command sequence issue.”
We’ve probably all had a software install or two gone awry, and these weren’t delivered wirelessly over 174 million miles to the first vehicle that attempts powered flight on another planet. As you might expect, the team is trying to test the new software here first, before downloading it, and hopefully setting a date for further testing next week.
