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

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SpaceX stress-tests the first ‘chopsticks’ with water bags. Saturn V, the most capable rocket ever flown, was fully expendable and could launch up to 118 metric tons (~260,000 lb) into orbit. Those skates are outfitted with wheels, allowing the carriage to roll up and down tracks built into the tower’s legs.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

The Saturn version of the two-mode plug-in hybrid at the Milford Proving Grounds. Aside from a box lunch, a couple of bottles of water and two absolutely delicious chocolate chip cookies, GCC received no compensation, expense reimbursement or branded merchandise from GM to attend the event. by Bill Cooke. Click to enlarge.

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to present first Starship update since 2019 [webcast]

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In theory, it would have been able to launch up to 300 tons (660,000 lb) to low Earth orbit (LEO) – twice the payload of Saturn V, the next most capable rocket. The principles of the rocket, its general shape and layout, and the Raptor engine powering it remained the same.

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MAEAA Web Links

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Saturn :Ken Norwicks online conversion diary Saturn: conversiondiary Solectria E-10 : Tom Husons new project SolectriaForce : Tom Hudson doesnt let cold weather stop him.

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No Antenna Could Survive Europa’s Brutal, Radioactive Environment—Until Now

Cars That Think

Europa, one of Jupiter's Galilean moons, has twice as much liquid water as Earth's oceans, if not more. The only direct evidence for this ocean is the plumes of water that occasionally erupt through cracks in the ice, jetting as high as 200 km above the surface. Each golden square is a unit cell in the antenna. JPL-Caltech/NASA.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They only have that many models because they use the same chassis and drivetrain to build 3 different cars, one branded as a Chevy, the next a Pontiac, then a Saturn, etc. So my Saturn SC1 does the job great I am getting 35-38 miles on the Hwy and with over 232,000 miles and runs like a champ. The first VCRs were well over a $1000.00

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