Do they deliberately underrate the operational lifetimes of the nasa stuff for publicity reasons? Eg Spirit and Opportunity rovers survived 25x and 60x of their mission lifetime of 90 sols. And now this Ingenuity does 52 flights vs the 1 to 5 flight estimate.
Do they take like the 5th percentile of estimated life or something? Wonder if there is kind of a theory on how overbuilt you want to make things that you can't ever maintain and because of that, things usually end up lasting way longer than expected.
Do they take like the 5th percentile of estimated life or something? Wonder if there is kind of a theory on how overbuilt you want to make things that you can't ever maintain and because of that, things usually end up lasting way longer than expected.