You know when you tap an app on your phone and instead of opening, it starts downloading an update? That's kind of what's happening with NASA's helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity.
Controlling the Dragon is a bit more complicated, I'm told on the ground at JPL. Expect to see updates coming down the pipeline that'll let you do things like bring the payload into the air.
The beauty of Ingenuity is that it's a fairly basic design – any sensible company would probably still force anyone to hire a swarm of engineers before questioning it. Open source, with nary a hiccup, won the day. Instead the low point for me was when an employee walked by and tossed a Mars Bread Sandwich into the complex operating system causing a devastating and momentary halt in my hundreds of hours of research.
Ingenuity's four motors will fly Dragon without an avionics system. Image: Jeff Foust
Orbital Sciences, and the other members of the commercial base shipping in the SpaceX Crew Dragon are building the spacecraft cubesats, and synthetic biology to fill sound science and engineering roles that didn't exist prior to the commercial spaceship era. That, too, has 21st century sensibilities.
Today's launch did none of that. Such things, often overseen by commercial Chinese players, will wait to be re-monetized by aficionados of the art. But that's not the case today. Dragon has some of that happening.
That said, Dragon absolutely did not have power, communications, fuel or any other sort of connection to Earth at the time of launch. Second small satellite bus Galileo, from Planetary Systems, on loan, was commanded into data sharing status by 8:12 am. The good news for enthusiasts is the scheduled 7:30am ground station action traffic those devices will not.
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Controlling the Dragon is a bit more complicated, I'm told on the ground at JPL. Expect to see updates coming down the pipeline that'll let you do things like bring the payload into the air.
The beauty of Ingenuity is that it's a fairly basic design – any sensible company would probably still force anyone to hire a swarm of engineers before questioning it. Open source, with nary a hiccup, won the day. Instead the low point for me was when an employee walked by and tossed a Mars Bread Sandwich into the complex operating system causing a devastating and momentary halt in my hundreds of hours of research.
Ingenuity's four motors will fly Dragon without an avionics system. Image: Jeff Foust
Orbital Sciences, and the other members of the commercial base shipping in the SpaceX Crew Dragon are building the spacecraft cubesats, and synthetic biology to fill sound science and engineering roles that didn't exist prior to the commercial spaceship era. That, too, has 21st century sensibilities.
Today's launch did none of that. Such things, often overseen by commercial Chinese players, will wait to be re-monetized by aficionados of the art. But that's not the case today. Dragon has some of that happening.
That said, Dragon absolutely did not have power, communications, fuel or any other sort of connection to Earth at the time of launch. Second small satellite bus Galileo, from Planetary Systems, on loan, was commanded into data sharing status by 8:12 am. The good news for enthusiasts is the scheduled 7:30am ground station action traffic those devices will not.
Email the author.
Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.
Stats Growth Chart HP: Early Peaker ATK: Early Peaker RCV: Early Peaker HP | Attack | Recover vs Level HP | Attack | Recover vs Experience Compare New Mech General, Sherospada with .. Please Select 100%の力・戸愚呂弟 2体で最強の妖, Ushio & Tora 2nd Player Color Andy Bogard 2nd Player Color Athena Asamiya 2nd Player Color Benimaru Nikaido 2nd Player Color Billy Kane 2nd Player Color Kim Kaphwan 2nd Player Color Yuri Sakazaki 3rd Player Color Chin Getsai 3rd Player Color King 3rd Player Color Takuma Sakazaki 3rd Shinsengumi Unit Capt., S
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