Mars 2020 Perseverance Exits Safe Mode, Successfully Heading to Mars
NASA Blog
7/31/2020
By Tony Greicius
Flight controllers for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission have returned the spacecraft to nominal flight operations.
Launched on July 30 at 7:50 a.m. EDT (4:50 a.m. PDT), Mars 2020 entered a state called safe mode soon after it was placed on an interplanetary trajectory because a sensor indicated that part of the spacecraft was slightly colder than expected. When a spacecraft enters safe mode, all but essential systems are turned off until it receives new commands from mission control.
“With safe mode exit, the team is getting down to the business of interplanetary cruise,” said Mars 2020 deputy project manager Matt Wallace of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “Next stop, Jezero Crater.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/mars2020/2020/07/31/mars-2020-perseverance-exits-safe-mode-successfully-heading-to-mars/
