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INGENUITY: Flying on Mars Fueled with Open-Source Software

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Apr 19, 2021

For the first time in history, we’ve flown an aircraft, the mini-helicopter Ingenuity, on another planet. Here’s more on the open-source software that backed up its engineering.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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