The Byte by Abby Lee Hood 12/16/2021
What's really going on here?Could the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter be hacked? A recent NASA announcement makes us think there’s the slimmest of chances.
In a new NASA press release celebrating an Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flight time milestone, the agency said that on Dec. 5, toward the end of its flight, the team lost some connections with the rotorcraft. The release said enough data was transmitted to Earth via Perseverance — the rover the helicopter accompanied into space — to determine a healthy helicopter on the red planet’s surface, but they couldn’t yet declare a successful mission.
“The rotorcraft’s status after the Dec. 5 flight was previously unconfirmed due to an unexpected cutoff to the in-flight data stream as the helicopter descended toward the surface at the conclusion of its flight,” NASA’s press release said.
That incident could be because of the Log4j bug, according to the Register. Back in June, the official account for Apache Software Foundation tweeted that the the Mars 2020 Helicopter mission is powered by Apache Log4j.
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