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#Mars: Ingenuity engineers learning to go faster. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Hey, okay, I promise I'll keep this debrief short. So I just had my date with the Bumble

0:05.3

guy, so cute. He surprised me with tickets to see this band I love. Then he got us a spot at the front

0:10.8

so I could actually see. It was amazing you know like I really felt good vibes.

0:14.8

Oh and he sent me a let me know when you get home message. That makes him really hot.

0:20.8

Kindness is sexy. Find it on Bumble.

0:23.0

I'm John Bachelor with my colleague Bob Zimmerman in years end.

0:30.0

We're looking at ingenuity, the great success of ingenuity the flying toaster on the

0:35.2

surface of Mars the ingenuity engineers celebrate them and what have they learned

0:40.2

Bob? Yes they did a really nice long essay which I linked to on Behind the Black describing

0:45.6

what they have been doing to learn how to fly on Maws more effectively.

0:50.5

In the context of this, I should just add that engineering is completed at 69 flight successfully,

0:57.0

and they've now listed the flight plan for its 70th flight, which would happen over the weekend and so this is just

1:04.6

wrong but what they've learned is this over the last like 30 flights what they've

1:09.7

been doing is trying to speed the helicopter up so that it can go farther in less time while in the

1:17.4

air.

1:18.4

What they found is that going faster, going up faster and traveling higher and traveling faster across the ground allows them to get

1:28.0

farther in less time which saves energy and equipment.

1:32.4

And so they've been testing that.

1:33.5

They've been pushing their envelopes steadily

1:36.0

over the last 30 flights very successfully.

1:38.7

And so that's what they've mainly learned.

1:41.2

And this is knowledge engineering wise which will

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