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by Dylan16807 877 days ago
It doesn't save flight data until it receives confirmation of download?
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During flight, high-rate flight data is written to volatile RAM, and 1HZ data is telemetered to Perseverance. The high-rate data is not written to disk until landing, because writing to disk is slow and CPU-intensive. There was a brownout during or just before landing, and sadly that meant the high-rate telemetry data was lost because it was never written to disk.

And by "disk" I mean non-volatile flash memory.

Okay, so we do have a subset of the flight data.

Thanks for the info.

Yes, and the team is vigorously studying the 1HZ data leading up to the brownout.