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SpaceX ships hardware for first 33-engine Super Heavy booster to Starbase

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SpaceX appears to have delivered hardware that will eventually become part of the first 33-engine Super Heavy booster to its South Texas ‘Starbase’ factory. Starship’s central ‘thrust puck’ is just two or so meters in diameter and designed to support the ship’s three gimballing Raptor Center (RC) engines.

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SAE International selects GM’s Larry Nitz for Edward N. Cole Award for Automotive Engineering Innovation

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Cole Award for Automotive Engineering Innovation. Nitz leads GM’s Global Transmission and Electrification team, with engineering operations in North America, Europe, South America and Asia. Nitz received a Bachelor’™s of Electrical Engineering from Kettering University and a Master’s degree from Stanford University.

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Ohio State University Takes Top Spot at 2009 EcoCAR Competition with EREV Design

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University students from The Ohio State University earned top honors at the 2009 finals of the EcoCAR : The NeXt Challenge competition in Toronto, Canada for their design of a Extended Range Electric Vehicle (EREV). The Ohio State’s design was powered by a 1.8-liter liter engine and fueled by E85 ethanol. Plug-in capability.

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EcoCAR 3 competition to use Chevy Camaro as base vehicle

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For EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future, GM donated Chevrolet Malibus; for EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge, GM donated Saturn Vues; and for Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility, the company donated Chevrolet Equinoxes.

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GM boosting investment at Spring Hill by $167M for two future mid-size vehicles

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The new programs will add to existing manufacturing operations at the site that include vehicle assembly, stamping, engine and component parts production. The facility is designed to supplement production for plants being retooled for new products or add production to meet sales spikes in real time.

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Video Friday: In Der Natur

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Rethink ] The designer of one of the most destructive combat robots ever built gives some tips on how to hit harder. For two decades after launch, the spacecraft were planetary explorers, giving us up-close views of the gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Somehow, they know exactly what my desk looks like most of the time.

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NASA’s Artemis I Revives the Moonshot

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Looks like we’re looking back toward the Saturn V. But Nelson is right: The rocket is retro in many ways, borrowing heavily from the space shuttles America flew for 30 years, and from the Apollo-Saturn V. John Casani, NASA Perhaps more importantly, the project inherits basic engineering from half a century of spaceflight.

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