"It’s kind of an open-source victory, because we’re flying an open-source operating system and an open-source flight software framework and flying commercial parts that you can buy off the shelf if you wanted to do this yourself someday."
— NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) senior engineer Tim Canham on the Mars Ingenuity Helicopter
Source: https://spectrum.ieee.org/nasa-designed-perseverance-helicopter-rover-fly-autonomously-mars
#FOSS #Mars #Space
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