Mayday…mayday: Ingenuity loses signals as Mars get cold, helicopter calls home for help

The Ingenuity Helicopter, which has emerged as the biggest asset on a foreign planet, gave engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory a brief heart attack when it missed a planned communications session with its accomplice, the Perseverance rover. This was the first such event when the rover missed a communications…

Last moments of CDS Bipin Rawat’s chopper crash captured in video | WATCH

Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika and 11 armed forces personnel lost their lives when an Indian Air Force Mi-17V5 helicopter crashed in Coonoor of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday. Locals, who were the first to rush to the crash site, recalled the tragic moment. An eyewitness said, “I first…

Perseverance rover begins imaging as Mars comes into Earth’s views, Ingenuity helicopter revs up

Two weeks after it went into hibernation on Mars, the Perseverance rover is set to trundle again. With communications returning to normal between Mars and Earth, the rover is scoping the area as it remains parked between two outcrops. The rover is imaging the area and studying the weather as engineers chart its course…

EC assigns ‘helicopter’ symbol to Chirag Paswan-led LJP faction, ‘sewing machine’ to Paras

The Election Commission on Tuesday assigned new symbols for the warring Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) factions one, led by Chirag Paswan, son of the late Ram Vilas Paswan, and the other, by Pashupati Kumar Paras, the senior Paswan’s brother. Ahead of the bypolls set to take place in Tarapur and Kusheshwar Asthan…