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JULY 26, 2021
High bay construction, September 2020. Construction of the existing high bay began in May 2020 and was more or less complete by the start of 2021. NASASpaceflight – bocachicagal). Musk’s assertion that the new facility will be “much larger” can be interpreted a number of ways.
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.
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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.).
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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. NASASpaceflight – bocachicagal). A 9-engine Super Heavy thrust puck, May 2021. NASASpaceflight – bocachicagal). 33 engine boosters anyone?
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
JANUARY 23, 2023
The culmination of that failure-as-an-option strategy was a series of seven suborbital Starship tests – two short hops of identical prototypes and five launch and landing attempts of five more advanced prototypes between August 2020 and May 2021. The next heaviest rockets ever built, Saturn V and N-1 , weighed around 2800 tons (~6.2M
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