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50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2

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To ensure that DSS-43 can still place the longest of long-distance calls, the antenna underwent a round of updates in 2020. When the space agency sent Curiosity , a golf cart–size rover, to explore the Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars in 2011, DSS-43 tracked Curiosity as it made its nail-biting seven-minute descent into Mars’s atmosphere.

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Tesla’s Q1 ’21 Deliveries prove Elon Musk was right about the Model S and X in 2019

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They’re really of minor importance to the future,” Musk said. Despite the absence of 50% of the company’s all-electric models, Tesla reported nearly 100,000 more vehicles in Q1 2021 than it did in Q1 2020 , moving from 88,400 to 184,800. . “I mean, they’re very expensive, made in low volume. He was right.

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2022 GMC Hummer EV: the biggest, baddest, butchest EV to hit the market?

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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. Before Tesla, they were seen as nerdy golf carts, far from usable as “real cars.”

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Nickel expert calls on Musk, Farley, others to demand Nickel sourcing in North America

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Surging prices of nickel, a potentially major influence in the future of the global electric vehicle market, have encouraged one mining expert in the field to call on automotive CEOs to demand more attention toward sourcing the metal in North America. Tesla CEO Elon Musk first discussed nickel mining during an Earnings Call in mid-2020.