Cars That Think
APRIL 18, 2024
To ensure that DSS-43 can still place the longest of long-distance calls, the antenna underwent a round of updates in 2020. A new X-band cone was installed. DSS-43 transmits radio signals in the X (8 to 12 gigahertz) and S (2 to 4 GHz) bands; it can receive signals in the X, S, L (1 to 2 GHz), and K (12 to 40 GHz) bands.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 30, 2017
General Motors and Honda are establishing the auto industry’s first manufacturing joint venture—Fuel Cell System Manufacturing, LLC, FCSM)—to mass-produce an advanced hydrogen fuel cell system that will be used in future products from each company. Earlier post.). Next-generation fuel cell stack co-developed by Honda and GM.
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.
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. This article appeared in Charged Issue 52 – November/December 2020 – Subscribe now.
Teslarati
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Starship SN10’s three-engine thrust puck, September 2020. lbf) – more than twice that of the current record-holder, NASA’s famous Saturn V Moon rocket. A 13 engine thrust puck spotted for a future booster which will have the full 33 engine complement. NASASpaceflight – bocachicagal).
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
It will also include a small spacecraft capable of "hopping" to explore shadowed craters for evidence of potential water ice, a resource that, if present, could be used in the future for both propulsion and supplies for astronauts. China's space program , long trailing in the footsteps of the U.S. James Provost.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. Volkswagen CEO says "Future belongs to electric cars," has gained German government support for development. Lutz said GM is pushing to have Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid on the road by 2009. -- ( Autoweek ). "I See Chevy Volt for latest.
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