A lot of generic fluff, nothing is specific.. what was the frequency band/s they used? Why line of sight is needed for such comms when it can be done otherwise? Do the chopper needs to be connected all the time for command and control channels, or are there any autopilot? Or is the connection meant is the payload one (camera etc.), I assume there’s or it would’ve crashed in landings if signal was lost and autopilot landed in an unsuitable location? Why move the rover at the same time while the chopper was flying? Shouldn’t be stationary for the best signal? Especially when there’s no gnss system there, why add that complexity of moving two of them (chopper/rover)? And if only one was moving that time, how they missed the fact they are going behind a hill? Was the battery dead when they lost signal? How they charged it after losing it? How they found the chopper in the first place? Did they find it by ground search and then flew the chopper back to the rover? How the battery survived that time?
I don’t know there are a lot of other questions I have in mind, that article barely explains anything..
I don’t know there are a lot of other questions I have in mind, that article barely explains anything..