{"id":7433,"date":"2021-04-27T22:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/?p=7433"},"modified":"2021-08-09T16:58:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T11:58:03","slug":"my-open-source-code-contribution-to-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-goes-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/my-open-source-code-contribution-to-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-goes-to-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"My Open Source Code Contribution to NASA\u2019s Ingenuity Helicopter Goes to Mars \ud83d\ude80"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>h1{max-width: 34rem; margin: 35px auto !important;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wide\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/575396023?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Satya Nadella<\/strong>, CEO of Microsoft: Featured <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAhmadAwais\/\">Ahmad Awais<\/a> for his <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/AhmadAwais\">open-source work<\/a> and contribution to Mars Helicopter Mission 2020 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/myinspire.microsoft.com\/sessions\/a80a31ae-565b-483d-ab34-b5e5b7fbc39b?source=sessions\">Keynote<\/a>: Microsoft Inspire Conference 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut \u2014 exploring space and whatnot. But I was afraid of heights, so whenever my mother asked, I&#8217;d say I&#8217;ll settle as a scientist who&#8217;d invent things like rockets.<\/p>\n<p>Years went by, reading space exploration missions, then aspiring to meet Elon Musk (the one who rebelled? Right?) \u2014 I started to realize how far away I was from actually becoming a rocket scientist.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo \u2014 I ended up becoming an engineer, an Electrical Engineer. Spoiler alert, I never liked it. It was boring; it was a lot of Maths. At the same time, I had always wanted to invent things and name things (it&#8217;s what scientists do?!). So, I started writing code. I loved it. I created software packages left and right \u2014 gave them names. Felt like I was inventing things.<\/p>\n<p>Right after graduating from college, my curiosity got the best of me; I switched my career (even though I had a good GPA and a job waiting) \u2014 landed a software engineering job \u2014 and became a software developer.<\/p>\n<p>For over ten years, I&#8217;ve been contributing code and docs to the open-source community. It&#8217;s been my way of achieving what I wanted as a kid. My code runs on almost every WordPress website, tens of thousands of Node.js, React, webpack apps\/sites, and millions of developers use hundreds of packages I open-sourced. It&#8217;s fulfilling, and I&#8217;m always humbled by it.<\/p>\n<p>I recently received a gold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:6790272195416350720\/\">GitHub Stars Award<\/a> by GitHub (Microsoft) to celebrate my open-source work. I am in awe of the response I received from the community.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"yet-theres-one-more-thing-that-happened-which-means-more-to-me-than-what-any-of-you-could-imagine\">Yet there&#8217;s one more thing that happened, which means more to me than what any of you could imagine\u2026<a href=\"#yet-theres-one-more-thing-that-happened-which-means-more-to-me-than-what-any-of-you-could-imagine\" class=\"heading-link\">#<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"postcontents full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/AhmadAwais\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7440\" src=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mars-open-source-ahmad-awais-img.jpg\" alt=\"Mars Open Source Ahmad Awais Img\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mars-open-source-ahmad-awais-img.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mars-open-source-ahmad-awais-img-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mars-open-source-ahmad-awais-img-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mars-open-source-ahmad-awais-img-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mars-open-source-ahmad-awais-img-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mars-open-source-ahmad-awais-img-1680x945.jpg 1680w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mars-open-source-ahmad-awais-img-860x484.jpg 860w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mars-open-source-ahmad-awais-img-680x383.jpg 680w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mars-open-source-ahmad-awais-img-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mars-open-source-ahmad-awais-img-50x28.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<section class=\"postcontents wrapper\">\n<p><em>Lo and behold, I just found out that: <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><del>I&#8217;m a Martian.<\/del> I mean, my open-source code made it to Mars. \ud83d\ude80<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through open-source, I contributed code to the software of Mars 2020 Helicopter Mission, also known as NASA\u2019s Ingenuity Helicopter. My teeny-tiny-super-small contribution was a part of humankind&#8217;s first successful attempt at a powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"postcontents full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/AhmadAwais\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7435\" src=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ahmad-awais-mars-ingenuity-open-source.jpg\" alt=\"Ahmad Awais Mars Ingenuity Open Source\" width=\"1796\" height=\"959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ahmad-awais-mars-ingenuity-open-source.jpg 1796w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ahmad-awais-mars-ingenuity-open-source-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ahmad-awais-mars-ingenuity-open-source-1024x547.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ahmad-awais-mars-ingenuity-open-source-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ahmad-awais-mars-ingenuity-open-source-1536x820.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ahmad-awais-mars-ingenuity-open-source-1680x897.jpg 1680w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ahmad-awais-mars-ingenuity-open-source-860x459.jpg 860w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ahmad-awais-mars-ingenuity-open-source-680x363.jpg 680w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ahmad-awais-mars-ingenuity-open-source-400x214.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ahmad-awais-mars-ingenuity-open-source-50x27.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1796px) 100vw, 1796px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<section class=\"postcontents wrapper\">\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe it. I&#8217;m here on Earth, but my code is on Mars. I was part of something that&#8217;s never been done: controlled, powered flight on another planet. 117 years after The Wright brothers&#8217; first flight on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I have <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/AhmadAwais\">hundreds of open-source repositories<\/a> and 300+ PRs but this, well it was a super simple link fix in the Twitter Bootstrap&#8217;s core \u2014 for the curious. Power of open-source, I guess. Made my day. For my inner child, it&#8217;s totally worth celebrating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can check it out and follow <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/AhmadAwais\">my GitHub profile @AhmadAwais<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/missions\/ingenuity\">The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter<\/a> departed Earth for its 293 million mile trip to Mars aboard the Perseverance Rover last July. However, Ingenuity\u2019s most important journey was only about 10 feet. That\u2019s the altitude the small helicopter hovered just above the surface of Mars, marking a major milestone for humanity: the launch was the first powered flight on another planet and proof that it\u2019s possible for a helicopter to achieve lift-off on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>In order to fly in Mars\u2019s thin atmosphere\u2014with an atmospheric volume less than 1% of Earth\u2019s\u2014NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) had to keep the weight of Ingenuity below four pounds (1.8kg), including blades, a motor, a power supply, solar panels, and enough computing power to monitor instruments and keep the helicopter from deviating from its pre-programmed course. Packing everything Ingenuity needed into such a lightweight rotorcraft was an engineering feat that lived up to the project\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the boundaries we have in our engineering disciplines, we couldn\u2019t have them anymore,\u201d Ingenuity Project Head MiMi Aung told the <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.megaphone.fm\/channel\/makingspace?selected=CBS7786064279\">Making Space podcast<\/a>. \u201cEverybody had to pitch in. Every gram was a challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The team that built Ingenuity is much bigger than JPL\u2019s 6,000 employees.<\/strong> Behind the 4-lb helicopter were contractors from recognizable companies like AeroVironment, Lockheed Martin, and Qualcomm. <strong>And behind its expansive software were thousands of open source developers around the world, unaware of the gravity of their contributions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 12,000 people contributed code, documentation, graphic design, and more to the open-source software that made Ingenuity\u2019s launch possible. To celebrate this moment in open source history, <a href=\"http:\/\/github.co\/m2020\">GitHub added a new badge to profiles of those contributors<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"wide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/readme\/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7437\" src=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter-spot-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nasa Ingenuity Helicopter Spot 1\" width=\"900\" height=\"1049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter-spot-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter-spot-1-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter-spot-1-879x1024.jpg 879w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter-spot-1-768x895.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter-spot-1-860x1002.jpg 860w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter-spot-1-680x793.jpg 680w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter-spot-1-400x466.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter-spot-1-50x58.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Nat Friedman, GitHub&#8217;s CEO, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/2021-04-19-open-source-goes-to-mars\/\">wrote about it<\/a>, and the ReadME project by GitHub wrote about it in <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/readme\/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter\">Open Source on Mars: Community powers NASA\u2019s Ingenuity Helicopter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"open-source-has-a-place-for-you\">Open-source has a place for you\u2026<a href=\"#open-source-has-a-place-for-you\" class=\"heading-link\">#<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Over the last week, when I shared the pictures of a gold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:6790272195416350720\/\">GitHub Stars Award<\/a> I received from GitHub \u2014 I got a lot of questions from the dev community on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAhmadAwais\/status\/1384499823731220483\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:6790272195416350720\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1078294064\/posts\/291134432545553\">Facebook<\/a> (and in groups like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/scholarships.pk\/permalink\/4251835104827015\/\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/AWScommunityPakistan\/permalink\/465060521399950\/\">this<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/DevCLahore\/permalink\/3962903333790042\/\">this<\/a>) about how to get started with open-source, how do I find time to do that and more.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many projects that would love more contributors. It doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s in the form of documentation, community management, writing code, or something else \u2014 there&#8217;s always a place for you, for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>If you find it hard to get started, I&#8217;d recommend you start by sharing bits and pieces of repeatable code snippets you write in more than one project. So many projects need help with documentation; if you&#8217;re a writer, you can contribute that way. No contribution is too small.<\/p>\n<p>Use your code for good. Peace!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thanks, Ahmad. Your contributions to the GitHub community prove that each of us can contribute individually to create something much bigger than ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/satyanadella\/status\/1416160431610101762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>P.S. The U.S. Embassy featured my work on their platform (coverage on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usembislamabad\/status\/1394208120537296899\">Twitter<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pakistan.usembassy\/posts\/10158618083268621\">Facebook<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CO-Kx1Lts53\/\">Instagram<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/karachi.usconsulate\/posts\/10158332427498870\">U.S. Consulate General<\/a> KHI). Thank you to everyone who has supported me. To say that I am humbled and grateful would be an understatement. Alhamdulillah, received a great deal of <a href=\"https:\/\/AhmadAwais.com\/press\">press and media coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pakistani developers are truly making their mark in the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DidYouKnow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DidYouKnow<\/a> Ahmad Awais (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAhmadAwais?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MrAhmadAwais<\/a>), a Pakistani award-winning open-source engineer, contributed code to the software for the Mars 2020 helicopter mission, also known as NASA\u2019s Ingenuity Helicopter? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RD3nDUY3Ig\">pic.twitter.com\/RD3nDUY3Ig<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; U.S. Embassy Islamabad (@usembislamabad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usembislamabad\/status\/1394208120537296899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>P.P.S. I shared this on <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ahmadawais\/posts\/10221356039905320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ahmadawais\/posts\/10221356039905320\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Facebook<\/a>, <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAhmadAwais\/status\/1387404183293333504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAhmadAwais\/status\/1387404183293333504\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:6793177672995360768\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:6793177672995360768\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">LinkedIn<\/a>. If that&#8217;s your jam.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OH MY GOD, I\u2019m a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Martian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Martian<\/a>\ud83d\udc7d<\/p>\n<p>My Open Source Contribution to NASA\u2019s Ingenuity Helicopter Made it to Mars. \ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n<p>I mean, through open-source, I contributed code to the software of Mars 2020 Helicopter Mission \u2014 NASA\u2019s Ingenuity Helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>I blogged about it <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P2RS7xUpRJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/P2RS7xUpRJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vR4X3T7d6d\">pic.twitter.com\/vR4X3T7d6d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ahmad Awais (@MrAhmadAwais) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAhmadAwais\/status\/1387404183293333504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ahmadawais\/posts\/10221356039905320\" data-width=\"552\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut\u2014exploring space and whatnot. 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