CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s little Mars helicopter has flown its last flight. The space agency announced Thursday that the 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) chopper named Ingenuity can no longer fly because of rotor blade damage. While it remains upright and in contact with flight controllers, its $85 million mission is officially over, officials said. Originally […]
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA said on Thursday that its miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity, which in 2021 became the first aircraft to achieve powered flight on another planet, can no longer can fly, ending a mission that lasted far longer than originally planned. “It is bittersweet that I must announce that Ingenuity, the […]
There weren’t supposed to be gunshots. Fire rang out across a valley north of Kabul, where Air Force Maj. Mark Ross was leading a pair of HH-60G helicopters on what would become their final practice mission in Afghanistan on Aug. 1, 2021. The airmen were trying to ensure their Pave Hawks could reach a refueling […]
I held my breath for a moment on Jan. 18, when scientists announced they’d lost contact with the Perseverance Mars rover’s helicopter friend, Ingenuity. Ingenuity had been nearing completion of its 72nd flight — a liftoff far past the threshold of “borrowed time” in this case, as the mighty craft was originally built for a […]
After a short period of worrying silence, NASA said on Saturday night that it was able to regain contact with the Ingenuity helicopter. The autonomous aircraft unexpectedly ceased communications with the Perseverance rover, which relays all transmissions between Ingenuity and Earth, on Thursday during its 72nd flight on Mars. It had already been acting up […]
Three crew members of a medical air transport team died Saturday when their helicopter crashed near Hydro, about 65 miles west of Oklahoma City. At 11:23 p.m., the operations control center for Air Evac Lifeteam lost contact with the helicopter, a Bell 206L-3, which was returning to its base in Weatherford after transporting a patient […]
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has gone incommunicado. Ingenuity‘s handlers lost contact with the 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) chopper on Thursday (Jan. 18), toward the end of its 72nd flight on Mars. “Data Ingenuity sent to the Perseverance rover (which acts as a relay between the helicopter and Earth) during the flight indicates it successfully climbed to […]
Social media posts in Kenya claiming to show photos of students arriving at a prestigious school via helicopter have stirred debate about wealth disparity. However, the images are not from Kenya: one is from a school in Zimbabwe while another was taken at a helicopter event in the United Kingdom. On January 15, 2024, Kenyan […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ukraine’s foreign affairs ministry says that four of its citizens were among those captured by al-Qaida-linked extremists in Somalia after their helicopter that was contracted by the United Nations made an emergency landing in territory controlled by the militants earlier this week. Officials say the helicopter went down on Wednesday because […]
SAN DIEGO — The Navy reported one of its helicopters crashed into the San Diego Bay Thursday night. All six crew members survived. The Navy said the crew has undergone medical evaluation without any critical or life-threatening injuries. FOX 5 spoke with a military aviation expert who said the Navy will determine if the crash […]
A Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter crashed Thursday evening in a field near the state’s southern border after experiencing a “total loss of power” midflight, according to officials. At about 7:20 p.m., the two-person crew aboard the single-engine helicopter entered into an “auto-rotative descent” before crashing near Farm-to-Market Road 1908, just west of Farm-to-Market […]
A Navy helicopter on a training mission in California crashed into the water near San Diego on Thursday, and all six people aboard were rescued and brought ashore, a Navy official said. An MH-60R helicopter from Helicopter Maritime Strike squadron 41 went into San Diego Bay “during routine training” around 6:40 p.m., Naval Air Station […]