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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 broke ground on Starship’s first Florida OLS in late 2019. In late 2021, SpaceX finally began constructing the second iteration of Starship’s first Florida pad. The post SpaceX installs rocket-catching arms on Starship’s Florida launch tower appeared first on TESLARATI.

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SpaceX rapidly constructing Starship’s first Florida launch pad and tower

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After restarting work on the project a few months ago, SpaceX appears to have gotten back up to speed and begun to make rapid progress on the construction of Starship’s first Florida launch pad and tower. Compared to SpaceX’s Starbase tower assembly, Florida Starship work appears to be proceeding at a similar pace.

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SpaceX Falcon 9 booster sticks landing, setting up future spy satellite launches

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Unlike NROL-87, which hasn’t been identified and launched from SpaceX’s California pad, NROL-85 is expected to launch from one of SpaceX’s Florida pads. The post SpaceX Falcon 9 booster sticks landing, setting up future spy satellite launches appeared first on TESLARATI.

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PNNL’s hydrothermal liquefaction shows promise for turning toxic algal blooms into biocrude

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The goal is to remove blue-green algae from large bodies of water while simultaneously recovering energy and nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus—an approach that mitigates near-term impacts from harmful algal blooms and helps reduce future blooms over time. Algae biorefinery concept through HTL. Figure from Tian et al.

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SpaceX gears up for busy year of Falcon Heavy launches

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The SSC says [PDF] that “LDPE provides critical data to inform future Space Force programs” and that “the unique experiments and prototype payloads hosted on LDPE-3A [will] advance warfighting capabilities in the areas of on-orbit threat assessment, space hazard detection, and space domain awareness.” Richard Angle).

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SpaceX sends reused Falcon 9 booster west for first California Starlink launches

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SpaceX has shipped the first of one or two flight-proven Falcon 9 boosters from Florida to California in the latest sign that the company is preparing to begin dedicated polar Starlink launches in the near future. — Michael Baylor (@nextspaceflight) May 27, 2021.