NASA engineers reprogrammed Mars helicopter's Snapdragon chip to run the rover instead, reconfiguring system from 140 million miles away — repurposes its 'ancient' unused Qualcomm 801 SoC, accurate to within 10 inches

NASA engineers successfully reprogrammed the Mars helicopter's Snapdragon chip to control the rover, repurposing an 'ancient' Qualcomm 801 SoC from 140 million miles away with high accuracy.