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FAA to start new environmental review for Florida SpaceX Starship launches

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it intends to start a new environmental review for future Starship launches from Florida. The decision to start a new review comes after SpaceX has made changes and wants to build new infrastructure and ship upgrades, something the FAA did not consider during the first review in 2019.

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

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SpaceX has installed a pair of rocket-catching arms on a tower meant to support the first East Coast launches of its next-generation Starship rocket. The company has been building the second of several planned Starship launch sites for more than three years. SpaceX broke ground on Starship’s first Florida OLS in late 2019.

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NTSB investigation of Model 3 fatal crash in March finds Autopilot was active

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The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report on the fatal March 2019 crash of a Tesla Model 3 with a semi-trailer in Delray Beach, Fla., Autopilot also was active at the time of a 2016 fatal crash in Florida involving a semi-trailer and several other serious crashes since that incident.

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SpaceX outfits drone ship for Panama Canal transit after 45th booster recovery

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Minutes later, SpaceX began loading unusual hardware onto the drone ship and it soon became clear that preparations were underway to transport OCISLY from Florida to California. Before / After Check out the height difference of OCISLY droneship after 24 hours of pumping out the water ballast.

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Wärtsilä to equip first US ocean-going LNG fueling barge

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The vessel will be used to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel to cruise ships along the east coast of Florida, USA. Deliveries will continue throughout 2018 and 2019, and the vessel is scheduled to commence operations in 2020.

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SpaceX Starship factory aiming to build five megarockets in 2023

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SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas hardware endeavors began in an empty field in late 2018, kicking off Starhopper testing in 2019. In late 2019 and early 2020, the company began building the bones of the factory that exists today, relying heavily on several giant tents (“sprung structures”) similar to those used by Tesla.

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Study: Catalytic Converter Thefts Are Slowly Declining

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But that number jumped up to 3,389 by 2019 and exploded to a whopping 14,433 in 2020. However, authorities have since taken action against several organized groups and there’s been a rash of companies offering devices that make catalytic converters harder to steal. That’s an over 1000-percent increase in just two short years.

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