Reply to post: Re: Have you tried switching it off and on again?

Known software issue grounds Ingenuity Mars copter as it attempted fourth flight

Andy The Hat Silver badge

Re: Have you tried switching it off and on again?

Depends on how much power is used before initialisation fails - it may have to go into a recharge state for a while before retry.

I find it surprising that a 15% chance of invalid faults being flagged under no-fault conditions wasn't discovered and fixed during pre-flight testing. After all the basic requirement is that it flies and this fault report causes it not to fly. When something is sitting on Mars you don't really want to be sorting out whether a fault flag is real or not before you try again as the result could terminate the mission ...

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