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SpaceX to replicate Starbase, build multiple Starship launch pads in Florida

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Known as Launch Complex 49 (LC-49) and located where NASA once considered building LC-39C, a third Saturn-class pad to match 39A and 39B, NASA now says that SpaceX aims to develop the site into a dedicated Starship launch pad. The plot of land NASA deemed LC-49 as recently as 2017 sits about 1 mile (1.6

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2013 Chevrolet Cruze

Green Car Reports

The 2013 Chevrolet Cruze may best live up to the promise that its former Saturn division never did: that an American car company could design and build small cars to rival Japanese competitors for both quality and value.

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SpaceX’s sootiest Falcon 9 booster yet returns to port after record reuse

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.]” Relative to the Space Shuttle, the only other operational orbital-class reusable rocket in history, 10 flights with little to no refurbishment would be an extraordinary achievement. 10X crispy/sooty #SpaceX #Falcon9 pic.twitter.com/yk89jHlpWm — Crystal (@Star_Shattered) May 12, 2021. ” (Richard Angle).

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Musk blames SpaceX’s latest Starship explosion on Raptor engine leak

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As promised, the new information offers some insight into the cause of Starship SN11’s premature demise and the challenges of iteratively developing systems as complex as a fully-reusable Saturn V-class launch vehicle.

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SpaceX Falcon 9 booster completes tenth launch and landing in a year and a half

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Falcon 9 booster B1058 has successfully completed SpaceX’s Transporter-3 mission, acing its tenth orbital-class launch and landing in record time in the process. The kicker: Transporter-3 was Falcon 9 B1058’s tenth orbital-class launch in just 19 months, averaging one launch every 59 days.

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Reported US Sales of Hybrids Up 21% in November; New Vehicle Market Share of 2.7%

Green Car Congress

These figures do not include sales of the new Mercedes S400 hybrid (Mercedes-Benz does not break out its sales by powertrain type; all S-Class models—400 hybrid, 550, 600, 63 AMG—sold 1,114 units in November). Sales of the Saturn VUE mild hybrid were down 31% to 134 units, for 9.8% The Saturn Aura sold 29 units, down 17%, for 2.0%

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SpaceX-launched Uranus mission a top priority of new decadal survey

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Uranus itself resides in what may be the most common class of exoplanets in the universe, making a close study of it invaluable for exoplanet science as a whole. The orbiter, however, would continue on to tour the Uranian system for at least four years, observing and studying the ice giant and its rings, magnetosphere, and 27+ moons.

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