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SpaceX installs rocket-catching arms on Starship’s Florida launch tower

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SpaceX has installed a pair of rocket-catching arms on a tower meant to support the first East Coast launches of its next-generation Starship rocket. The company has been building the second of several planned Starship launch sites for more than three years.

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NASA’s SLS Moon rocket rolls out to the launch pad for the first time

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Around noon EST on Thursday, March 17th, the high bay doors of NASA’s vast Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) opened, revealing the first fully assembled Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft. For the first time, the fully assembled rocket and spacecraft for the #Artemis I mission has left the Vehicle Assembly Building.

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SpaceX rolls largest rocket booster ever built to the launch pad

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Six weeks after assembly began, SpaceX has completed Starship’s first true Super Heavy booster prototype, rolled it out of its ‘high bay’ nest, and installed the building-sized rocket at the launch pad. A panorama of Super Heavy Booster 3, now the largest rocket stage in the world. Starship Gazer).

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reveals Starship factory upgrade plans

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CEO Elon Musk says that SpaceX is about to begin the construction of “a much larger high bay” adjacent to the existing structure, an 82m (~270 ft) tall building used to complete assembly of Starship and Super Heavy boosters. cranes that will run the full length of the building. NASASpaceflight – bocachicagal).

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NASA’s Space Launch System Will Lift Off

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Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida—a cavernous structure built in the 1960s for constructing the Apollo program’s Saturn V rockets and, later, for preparing the space shuttle—the agency’s next big rocket is taking shape. Inside the. It’s taller than the Statue of Liberty,” he said at an.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

A little googling revealed that the local Chrysler plant had recently closed, and these folks were hoping to see it re-opened and used to build a new generation of electric cars. I haven’t heard about them since (though the former Saturn plant in the area is slated for Fisker ) but the image stuck with me.

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GMs Expanding Gasoline Direct Injection Engine Portfolio

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This Ecotec engine is installed transversely, and equipped with either a Hydra-Matic 6T45 FWD or AWD six-speed automatic transmission. Saturn Sky Red Line. Saturn Outlook. Saturn Sky Red Line. Saturn Outlook. Click to enlarge. 2010 Ecotec 2.4L I-4, VVT DI (LAF). I-4 VVT DI Engine (LAF) for the 2010 model year.

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