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SpaceX produces 1M Starlink terminals ~19 months after preorders opened

Teslarati

This is incredibly impressive as SpaceX only opened pre-orders for Starlink kits in February 2021, just around 19 months ago. These included advanced deposits on the Starlink kits themselves. Elon Musk promptly confirmed the news on Twitter, noting that “Starlink now over 1M user terminals manufactured.”

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Antares rocket launches Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station

Teslarati

At 4:44 AM EST Monday, February 21st, Cygnus finished its autonomous rendezvous with the ISS and the station’s robotic Canadarm2 arm – operated by NASA astronaut Raja Chari – grabbed the hovering spacecraft and ultimately installed it on a berthing port later that morning.

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An Army of Grain-harvesting Robots Marches Across Russia

Cars That Think

After initially experimenting with large heavy-duty trucks, we realized that the agricultural sector doesn't have the major legal and regulatory constraints that road transport has in Russia and elsewhere. We are not tied to any particular brand; our retrofit kit will work with any combine harvester model available in the farmer's fleet.

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An Army of Grain-harvesting Robots Marches Across Russia

Cars That Think

After initially experimenting with large heavy-duty trucks, we realized that the agricultural sector doesn't have the major legal and regulatory constraints that road transport has in Russia and elsewhere. We are not tied to any particular brand; our retrofit kit will work with any combine harvester model available in the farmer's fleet.

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

Cars That Think

To help dodge sanctions, Russia had demanded that by the start of this month, members of the European Union begin paying for the natural gas it was buying in rubles rather than dollars or euros, threatening to cut off supplies if they didn’t. But Rosenow explains that “there is a shortage of installers in Europe; there is a shortage of kit.”

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. “We have 10,000 engineers out there every day, installing and servicing boilers,&# he added. There are about 600,000 GHE installations working in the U.S.

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