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SAE International selects GM’s Larry Nitz for Edward N. Cole Award for Automotive Engineering Innovation

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He will receive the award during the SAE 2016 World Congress in April. He was deeply involved in developing clutch-to-clutch transmission controls for the Saturn Automatic and GM Allison transmissions used in Heavy Duty Trucks. Nitz, GM Executive Director, Global Propulsion Systems, is the winner of the Edward N.

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GM and Honda to establish industry-first $85M joint fuel cell system manufacturing operation in Michigan

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Precious metals have been reduced dramatically and a fully cross-functional team is developing advanced manufacturing processes simultaneously with advances in the design. The result is a lower-cost system that is a fraction of the size and mass. —Charlie Freese, GM executive director of Global Fuel Cell Business.

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NASA’s Space Launch System Will Lift Off

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Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida—a cavernous structure built in the 1960s for constructing the Apollo program’s Saturn V rockets and, later, for preparing the space shuttle—the agency’s next big rocket is taking shape. It’s designed to take a huge amount of cargo and people to deep space.

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China Aims for a Permanent Moon Base in the 2030s

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Starting with robotic landing and orbiting missions in the 2020s, its designers envision a permanently inhabited lunar base by the mid-2030s. The roughly 100-meter-long, Saturn V–like Long March 9 will be capable of launching around 50 tonnes of payload to translunar injection. Petersburg. James Provost.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

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The Saturn version of the two-mode plug-in hybrid at the Milford Proving Grounds. One of the designers called Buick “ premium without being pretentious ” Buick appears to be targeting a Lexus like experience. The Enclave was the first step in the “ renaissance of the Buick brand ” as mentioned by another designer. by Bill Cooke.

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to present first Starship update since 2019 [webcast]

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Musk first revealed SpaceX’s detailed plans for a massive, fully-reusable Mars rocket in September 2016. In theory, it would have been able to launch up to 300 tons (660,000 lb) to low Earth orbit (LEO) – twice the payload of Saturn V, the next most capable rocket.

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