{"id":112024,"date":"2020-08-28T16:05:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T23:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/nasa-just-powered-up-its-mars-helicopter"},"modified":"2020-08-28T16:09:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T23:09:02","slug":"nasa-just-powered-up-its-mars-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/nasa-just-powered-up-its-mars-helicopter","title":{"rendered":"NASA Just Powered Up Its Mars Helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-just-powered-up-its-mars-helicopter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a big milestone, as it was our first opportunity to turn on Ingenuity and give its electronics a \u2018test drive\u2019 since we launched on July 30,\u201d said Tim Canham, the operations lead for Mars Helicopter at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in the statement. \u201cSince everything went by the book, we\u2019ll perform the same activity about every two weeks to maintain an acceptable state of charge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one more step on the road to what NASA hopes will be humankind\u2019s first flight on an alien world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis charge activity shows we have survived launch and that so far we can handle the harsh environment of interplanetary space,\u201d MiMi Aung, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter project manager, added. \u201cWe have a lot more firsts to go before we can attempt the first experimental flight test on another planet, but right now we are all feeling very good about the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis was a big milestone, as it was our first opportunity to turn on Ingenuity and give its electronics a \u2018test drive\u2019 since we launched on July 30,\u201d said Tim Canham, the operations lead for Mars Helicopter at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in the statement. \u201cSince everything went by the book, we\u2019ll perform the same [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112025,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112024\/revisions\/112025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}