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Electric Airplane Flights Coming to Florida, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean — in 2027

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Electric aircraft are all the rage, and they have been for several years, but when are we going to see actual commercial electric airplane options for normal people? Well, sort of soon. The electric aircraft “Alice” from Eviation Aircraft has been getting real orders lately, including from a young airline based in Florida.

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Brine-to-battery company EnergyX secures $450M funding agreement with Global Emerging Markets

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The proceeds from this capital investment will further the company’s commercialization efforts of its direct lithium extraction and refinery technologies. billion alternative investment firm with offices in Paris, New York, and the Bahamas. Founded in 1991, GEM (Global Emerging Markets) is a $3.4-billion

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SpaceX drone ship leaves port for sixth back-to-back Starlink launch

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Known as Starlink 4-12, the mission will be SpaceX’s sixth uninterrupted Starlink launch – just shy of the company’s record of seven Starlink launches between commercial payloads. link] — Gav Cornwell (@SpaceOffshore) March 14, 2022.

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SpaceX navy deploys for back-to-back Italian radar satellite, Starlink launches

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A fourth ship will likely head into the Pacific late this week or early next for a third launch, a fifth ship will depart for a different fairing recovery mission near the Bahamas, and a sixth SpaceX ship is sailing back to Florida’s East Coast after recovering a Dragon spacecraft from the Gulf of Mexico.

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Digital Currency and Trade Systems Are Tearing up the Rules

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Another example is the Swiss Trust Chain (which MIT helped engineer ); that platform is live but its commercial applications are still being developed. China has created similar systems that have already seen large-scale deployment, but which are less well documented. Meanwhile, China is conducting large-scale tests with its digital yuan.

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SpaceX drone ship heads to sea for first 2022 Falcon launch

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Barring delays, drone ship ASOG will arrive about 640 km (400 mi) downrange at its recovery site – just northeast of the Bahamas – a day or two before Falcon 9’s first launch and landing attempt of the year. 2022 starts here for SpaceX recovery. The real question is how many launches the company can feasibly support.

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Satellite Imagery for Everyone

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These underwater sand dunes adorn the seafloor between Andros Island and the Exuma islands in the Bahamas. 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.