Teslarati
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
It also became the third most powerful liquid rocket ever launched, placing SpaceX squarely at the table alongside the likes of NASA’s Saturn V Moon rocket and the Soviet Union’s ill-fated N-1 and Energia. As of June 2018, SpaceX was supposed to launch the US Air Force’s AFSPC-52 (now USSF-52) mission in September 2020.
Teslarati
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Starship’s central ‘thrust puck’ is just two or so meters in diameter and designed to support the ship’s three gimballing Raptor Center (RC) engines. It’s also designed to support a good deal more than three Raptors. Starship SN10’s three-engine thrust puck, September 2020.
Teslarati
JANUARY 31, 2023
SpaceX began constructing Starship’s Texas launch site in earnest in late 2020. But the company went on to radically redesign the rocket and its ground systems, forcing it to entirely abandon about a year of work by the end of 2020. SpaceX broke ground on Starship’s first Florida OLS in late 2019.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 30, 2017
Over the past three years, GM and Honda have been collaborating on next-generation fuel cell and hydrogen storage systems, aiming at commercialization in the 2020 time frame. Mass production of fuel cell systems is expected to begin around 2020 and create nearly 100 new jobs. Earlier post.).
Charged EVs
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
The news that General Motors would relaunch the infamous Hummer name—as an all-electric truck no less—broke a few days before the high-dollar, high-visibility 2020 Super Bowl ad that introduced that vehicle to the world. It’s even designed to accept aftermarket 37-inch tires without modification. And ground clearance of up to 15.9
Teslarati
JANUARY 23, 2023
It’s designed to launch more than 100 metric tons (~220,000 lb) to low Earth orbit (LEO) in a fully-reusable configuration. The next heaviest rockets ever built, Saturn V and N-1 , weighed around 2800 tons (~6.2M At liftoff, Starship’s 33 Raptor engines will produce up to 7590 tons (16.7M lbs) fully loaded.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
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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