NASA wants to fix Mars drone Ingenuity launch problems with software update – IT Pro – News

These are the kind of facts that you can use to make a news story more interesting and fun.

there are many fun facts about Mars, but is it relevant to this article? The delay will mainly be in the development and testing of the code, which up to 21 minutes delay in sending will not play a significant role. I would also find it interesting which programming language they use, how big the program is, whether they use a standard protocol or whether everything has been specially developed for this mission etc.

I suspect that the program is first sent from Earth to a satellite below Mars, that it sends it to Perseverance, that it checks a checksum before sending it to Ingenuity, that it puts everything in its memory first, then checks the checksum, then copies it to storage without removing the original software, then checks again for a checksum, then adjusts the boot loader to start the new program and then resets itself.

That is not only interesting, but much more relevant to this article.

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