The second stage of China’s space rocket CZ-5B, which carried into space the core module of a future space station, may enter the dense layer of the atmosphere over the Pacific on May 9, Russia’s space corporation Roscosmos told TASS on Friday. “According to calculations made as of May 7, the second stage may enter…
Hooded and tied to a target, a young pilot suffered for long minutes the shots of a Mirage fighter jet made near him. Traumatized by this episode which occurred two years ago in Corsica, the student pilot ended up filing a complaint against the authors of the hazing who filmed everything. Two years, on the…
On April 30, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover made history as the first spacecraft to record sounds from another spacecraft on another planet. During Ingenuity’s fourth flight, a microphone included with the SuperCam instrument aboard Perseverance captured the humming sound of the blades and the din of wind. For the first time, a spacecraft on another…
A Jet Serve Aviation air ambulance made an emergency belly landing in Mumbai after losing a front landing gear wheel during takeoff from runway 32 in Nagpur. The Beechcraft charter aircraft with registration VT-JIL was carrying one patient, two crew members, a paramedic and a doctor from Nagpur Airport to Mumbai International Airport. A full…
London Heathrow Airport has pushed back the reopening date of Terminal 3 due to continued uncertainty over travel restrictions imposed by the government. Heathrow’s Terminal 3 was shut down in April 2020 after the global outbreak of the coronavirus. The terminal was previously announced to reopen on May 17. However, it has now been pushed…
The pilot of flight MH370 that disappeared seven years ago made numerous turns to avoid detection before the passenger jet took its final, fatal course, a new study found. MH370 vanished in March, 2014, with Malaysian Airlines Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah dying alongside 238 passengers and crew, including six Australians. The research by aerospace engineer…