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NASA Reschedules Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s Fourth Flight On The Red Planet!

 NASA's Ingenuity Mars little helicopter took its third controlled trip on the red planet on April 25. Furthermore, the smaller than normal helicopter was good to go for its fourth controlled trip on Mars, be that as it may, NASA needed to defer the fourth trip due to a "product glitch". Inventiveness group presently plans to attempt its fourth flight again tomorrow, April 30, 202 at 10:46 a.m. EDT (7:46 a.m. PDT, 12:30 p.m. nearby Mars time).  "The helicopter is protected and healthy. Information returned during a downlink at 1:21 p.m. EDT (10:21 a.m. PDT) demonstrates the helicopter didn't progress to flight mode, which is needed for the trip to occur," states NASA. It clarifies that an issue was recognized before that showed a 15% possibility for a guard dog clock lapse, keeping the departure from changing to flight mode. The postponement in Ingenuity's fourth flight is in accordance with that assumption.  Discussing Ingenuity's fourth flight, it...