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CPKC orders 3.6MW of Ballard fuel cells for expansion of hydrogen locomotive program

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Further development on range across temperature variations, heavy hauling, fine tuning auxiliary load to avoid waste, increased number of hours on current and additional units will support continued technological evolution. The conversion work will be done at CSX’s Huntington, West Virginia locomotive shop.

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Antares rocket launches Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station

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On Saturday, February 19th, an uncrewed Northrup Grumman Cygnus spacecraft lifted off on an Antares rocket from Pad 0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in northeast Virginia. The NG-17 mission also carried a modification kit that will pave the way for the installation of the new set of upgraded solar arrays.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form. No biological organism can live in its own waste products,” Kay said. “If After a year I was ready to give up.”

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