Mars helicopter Ingenuity misses takeoff for 4th flight on Red Planet
(Apr 29, 2021;Space.com)
NASA's team is assessing what happened.
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity was supposed to get a real workout this morning (April 29), but things didn't go as planned.
The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper was scheduled to lift off from the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater today around 10:12 a.m. EDT (1412 GMT), kicking off its fourth flight on the Red Planet. That didn't happen.
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Uh oh. According to that article, Ingenuity is capped at 5 flights within a month from its April 3rd deployment. Running out of time.
Correct, but I have seen that it now "has a new mission!" I'll post what else I find that explains what the future might hold.