[HN Gopher] Reconstructed path of Ingenuity flight 9 via photogr...
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       Reconstructed path of Ingenuity flight 9 via photogrammetry
        
       Author : _Microft
       Score  : 60 points
       Date   : 2021-07-26 21:18 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (twitter.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | dylan604 wrote:
       | These videos are just over 90 seconds long, and according to the
       | info posted are at 2x speed. That gives the flight time of 3mins.
       | I thought the flight time was only able to be 90 seconds. Did I
       | miss something where they are getting double the expected flight
       | times?
        
         | orbital-decay wrote:
         | _> I thought the flight time was only able to be 90 seconds_
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         | That was just the initial guess before the mission, considering
         | the power budget available for powering the rotor. After
         | completing the planned objectives, NASA attempted longer
         | flights; the last two were about 2 min 45 sec.
        
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