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NASA first ever helicopter in history to make Mars powered flight
19 Apr, 2021
RED PLANET – NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The team of Ingenuity, which has 1.8-kilogram weight, at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed the feat ...
Air Force F - 35 fighter jet crashes during air to air refuelling
1 Oct, 2020
A Marine Corps F-35B fighter jet crashed after “making contact” with a KC-130J during an aerial refueling measure in southern California on Tuesday evening. “At approximately 1600 it was reported that an F-35B made contact with a KC-130J during an air-to-air refueling evolution, resulting ...
Submarine test launches four nuclear capable missile to validate performance
8 Sep, 2019
*Washington, US - US Navy Submarine test launches four nuclear capable missile to validate performance. * US submarine tested four life-extended Trident II D5 missiles to validate their performance, the US Navy said in a statement on Friday. Two tests were conducted by USS Nebraska on Wednesday ...
Number of missing jumps to more than 1,000 in California fire
17 Nov, 2018
Los Angeles: The number of people missing in a devastating wildfire in northern California jumped to more than 1,000, authorities said, as the remains of eight other victims were found by rescuers. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said the number of missing had soared from 631 on Thursday to 1,011 ...
Number of missing in California fire jumps past 600
16 Nov, 2018
Paradise, United States: The number of people listed as missing in one of California's deadliest wildfires has skyrocketed past 600, authorities said Thursday, as the remains of seven additional victims were found by rescuers. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said the number of missing had more than ...
Strong anti Pakistan, US congressman defeated after 30 years
11 Nov, 2018
WASHINGTON - Representative Dana Rohrabacher, whose quixotic foreign policy campaigns made him persona non grata in Pakistan and Afghanistan and who became a rare US defender of Vladimir Putin, has lost his seat after 30 years. The 71-year-old Republican, whose exploits have included grabbing a ...
After disaster alert failures, U.S. moves toward national system
10 Aug, 2018
WASHINGTON: In California last month, two young children and their great-grandmother died in a wildfire that family members say they never saw coming. In January, thousands of people were panic-stricken in Hawaii by a false alarm that a ballistic missile was about to strike the islands. These and ...
US Navy planning new camps to support immigration crackdown: report
23 Jun, 2018
WASHINGTON: The US Navy plans to build sprawling detention centers for tens of thousands of immigrants on remote bases in support of President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy against unlawful migration, a report said Friday. According to a draft memo obtained by Time ...
Explosion in California, casualties reported: Police
17 May, 2018
LOS ANGELES — An explosion that rocked a Southern California medical office building on Tuesday, killing a woman and injuring three other people, is being investigated as intentional and investigators believe the blast may have come from a package, a U.S. official told The ...
NASA begins countdown to new Mars mission in May
14 Apr, 2018
LOS ANGELES: The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is gearing up for the May 5 launch of its new Mars lander from the West Coast. The robotic InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, will explore the deep interior of ...
