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SpaceX, NASA batten down the hatches as another storm approaches Florida

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Increasingly tight scheduling of one of SpaceX’s two Florida pads will likely trigger delays for at least two or three more November launches, magnifying the storm’s immediate impact. In comparison, the situation facing NASA could become more serious. Even then, some senior officials were brazenly reluctant to stand down.

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The Boring Company proposes underground Loop for Fort Lauderdale

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Trantalis announced that The Boring Company (TBC) has submitted a proposal to build an underground transit system in the city. to build an underground transit loop between downtown and the beach. to build an underground transit loop between downtown and the beach. Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean J.

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3-year project to develop and test standards for describing the performance of automotive lidar

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Although one could arguably compare lidars based solely on their manufacturers’ specifications, such comparisons are not very useful. Bos, Jeffries, and the team set up various targets along a 200-meter path in an open field in Kissimmee, Florida. Additionally, we will measure the eye safety of the lidars. —Jeremy Bos.

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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

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Within the HVAC world, innovations tend to be small and progressive: there’s not some silver bullet,” says Wade Conlan , an engineer in Maitland, Florida, and vice president of ASHRAE , a heating and air-conditioning standards-setting organization. Up north there is a tipping point that they’re trying to get to,” Conlan says.

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SpaceX’s backup Dragon launch pad on track for 2023 debut

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SpaceX has begun building a backup launch pad for its Cargo and Crew Dragon spacecraft and says the facility could be ready for use as early as fall 2023. The company has two operational Falcon launch pads in Florida, and it proposed to modify the second pad. Reuters first revealed those plans in June 2022.

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SpaceX’s first converted Falcon Heavy booster already preparing for next launch

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Despite the painful launch campaign, B1052 performed perfectly and helped send the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) CSG-2 Earth observation satellite to a polar sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) before boosting back to the Florida coast and landing just a few miles south of where it launched. Richard Angle ).

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Researchers find that the global carbon pool in seagrass beds is as much as 19.9B metric tons

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As a comparison, a typical terrestrial forest stores about 30,000 metric tons per square kilometer, most of which is in the form of wood. The Florida Coastal Everglades LTER site is one of 26 such NSF LTER sites around the world in ecosystems from forests to tundra, coral reefs to barrier islands. —Fourqurean et al.

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