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SpaceX ships hardware for first 33-engine Super Heavy booster to Starbase

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SpaceX appears to have delivered hardware that will eventually become part of the first 33-engine Super Heavy booster to its South Texas ‘Starbase’ factory. Starship’s central ‘thrust puck’ is just two or so meters in diameter and designed to support the ship’s three gimballing Raptor Center (RC) engines.

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50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2

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NASA engineers predicted that to carry out missions beyond Mars, the space agency needed more sensitive antennas. To ensure that DSS-43 can still place the longest of long-distance calls, the antenna underwent a round of updates in 2020. The antenna had a 26-meter-diameter dish. DSS-42 was retired in 2000.

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GM and Honda to establish industry-first $85M joint fuel cell system manufacturing operation in Michigan

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Over the past three years, GM and Honda have been collaborating on next-generation fuel cell and hydrogen storage systems, aiming at commercialization in the 2020 time frame. Mass production of fuel cell systems is expected to begin around 2020 and create nearly 100 new jobs. Earlier post.).

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SpaceX’s Starship rocket sails through first “flight-like” fueling test

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At liftoff, Starship’s 33 Raptor engines will produce up to 7590 tons (16.7M The culmination of that failure-as-an-option strategy was a series of seven suborbital Starship tests – two short hops of identical prototypes and five launch and landing attempts of five more advanced prototypes between August 2020 and May 2021.

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China Aims for a Permanent Moon Base in the 2030s

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Su Yan, responsible for data reception for the landing at Miyun ground station , in Beijing, was waiting—nervously and in silence with her team—for vital signals indicating that optical, laser, and microwave sensors had combined effectively with rocket engines for a soft landing. The landing also prefigured grander Chinese lunar ambitions.

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NASA’s Space Launch System Will Lift Off

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Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida—a cavernous structure built in the 1960s for constructing the Apollo program’s Saturn V rockets and, later, for preparing the space shuttle—the agency’s next big rocket is taking shape. RS-25 engines developed for the shuttle mounted on its base. Inside the.

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BrightDrop: GM’s silent push into electric commercial vehicles

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Thus, the restructured GM was composed of Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac, while the Hummer, Pontiac, Saab and Saturn brands died. We leverage the best of two worlds: the innovation, agility, and focus of a technology startup with the engineering and manufacturing might of GM.”. The Task Force ultimately agreed.