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NASA and Virgin Orbit 3D print, test rocket combustion chamber

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The company partnered with NASA experts in combustion and additive manufacturing (3D printing) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; Glenn Research Center in Cleveland; and Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Virgin Orbit air launches rockets carrying small satellites to space.

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Westwater Resources is building a facility in Alabama to process one of the largest graphite deposits in the US

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Westwater holds mineral rights to the Coosa graphite deposit, which is located across 42,000 acres in Alabama. The company is currently building a graphite processing plant in Kellyton, Alabama. Fast forward to today and Westwater is building a graphite plant in Alabama, and people are eager to buy our capacity.

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Mercedes EV sales boom in strongest company performance yet

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It should be noted that each of these percentages accounts only for Mercedes passenger vehicle sales and are slightly higher than the statistics that include its commercial offerings. where it is assembled at the brand’s Birmingham, Alabama, plant. What do you think of the article? and 51,600 globally.

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Researchers characterize algae parasite that impacts on algae biofuel

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As part of an ongoing effort to improve commercial scale algae biofuel production, a group of scientists, led by crude oil producer Sapphire Energy, Inc., The article provides a comprehensive study of the parasite challenge facing crop protection for scaled algae cultivation in open-pond systems. —Letcher et al. McBride, Ph.D.,

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Satellite Imagery for Everyone

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The best commercially available spatial resolution for optical imagery is 25 cm, which means that one pixel represents a 25-by-25-cm area on the ground—roughly the size of your laptop. Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama, for example, uses satellite imagery to locate archaeological sites of interest.