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LiquidPiston receives $8.2M award to integrate XTS-210 heavy-fueled rotary engine into compact 10 kW genset for US Army

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million contract by Parsons Corporation to integrate its recently launched high-performance rotary X-Engine, the XTS-210 ( earlier post ), into a lightweight, compact 10 kW generator set to be field-tested by the Army, delivering unmatched power flexibility and portability to the warfighter. For Iraq, the fuel casualty factor was 0.026.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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The first was a television-style camera system (called a Return Beam Vidicon, or RBV) built by the Radio Corporation of America. Today’s commercial high-resolution satellites can have a resolution of 30 centimeters. Landsat’s winning tech was the Multispectral Scanner System ERTS was the first of its kind.

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