From the dramatic helicopter rescue scene and the casualties at the “Bridge of Death” to the radiation effects on the liquidators, sometimes the writers took creative license, getting the facts wrong, in the Chernobyl series. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65766-chernobyl-series-science-wrong.html
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Exciting progress on NASA’s next Mars mission
The Mars Helicopter – which will launch with Mars 2020 – has now passed some key tests. Plus engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, celebrate with a selfie after attaching the Mars 2020 rover’s remote sensing mast. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/mars-2020-update-mars-helicopter-rover-mast…
Texas Appeals Court Says Government Can’t Be Sued For Copyright Piracy
sandbagger writes: Photographer Jim Olive’s helicopter shot of Houston was used by the University of Houston on their website after they removed his watermark, a definite no-no particularly since the image was used for their school of business. The photographer then sent the university a bill for $41,000 — $16,000 for the usage and $25,000 for removing his copyright credit. After…
Next Month Uber Will Start Offering Helicopter Rides in New York City
An anonymous reader quotes Fortune:
Uber Technologies Inc. is testing a helicopter service in New York City, according to documents outlining the program obtained by Bloomberg. Passengers will be able to use the Uber app to book a flight through the service, called Uber Copter, the documents show. Tests flights took off from a Manhattan heliport near Wall Street to John F….
NASA’s Mars helicopter testing enters final phase
NASA’s Mars Helicopter flight demonstration project has passed a number of key tests with flying colors. In 2021, the small, autonomous helicopter will be the first vehicle in history to attempt to establish the viability of heavier-than-air vehicles flying on another planet. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-nasa-mars-helicopter-phase.html…
NASA’s Mars Helicopter Passes Another Flight Test
The autonomous rotorcraft NASA is planning to integrate with the agency’s Mars 2020 rover mission has successfully passed another round of important tests. The Verge reports: Earlier this year, JPL conducted tests of the helicopter in “a simulated Martian environment” that put the helicopter through temperatures as low as minus 130 degrees Fahrenheit and flew it in a vacuum chamber that…
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission drops in on Death Valley
On a test flight in Death Valley, California, an Airbus helicopter carried an engineering model of the Lander Vision System (LVS) that will help guide NASA’s next Mars mission to a safe touchdown on the Red Planet. During the flight – one in a series—the helicopter (which is not part of the mission and was used just for testing) and its…