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SpaceX to launch Europe’s next deep space telescope, first asteroid orbiter

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That attitude was largely cultivated by ESA and the French company Arianespace’s success in the international commercial launch market in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s – a hard-fought position that all parties eventually seemed to take for granted. At the time, a European Soyuz 2.1

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Pike Research forecasts annual global sales of light-duty natural gas vehicles to reach 3.2M in 2019

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The global market for light-duty (LD) natural gas vehicles (NGVs)—including passenger cars, light-duty trucks and commercial vehicles—will experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.2% market largely consists of fleet purchasers rather than individual consumers. Ukraine and Italy.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Today’s commercial high-resolution satellites can have a resolution of 30 centimeters. Just as corn blight was devastating crops in the United States, a long, cold winter was destroying Soviet wheat from the Ukraine and Volga River valley, totaling half of the world’s grain loss that year. ERTS had a spatial resolution of 80 meters.

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Green Hydrogen Cars: How They are Different?

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However, due to its high production cost, there are some concerns regarding green hydrogen’s feasibility; realistic doubts that will dissipate as the earth’s decarbonisation continues and, as a result, the creation of renewable energy becomes less expensive.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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technology-license deal for the first commercial deployment of vehicle-to-grid technology. Other trials include commercial auto fleets, a set of utility vans in Copenhagen , two electric school buses in Illinois, and five in New York. Market watchers have seen a parade of “just about there” moments for vehicle-to-grid technology.

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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

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and EU Ukraine-related economic and financial sanctions. The Ministry of Finance has banned contracts for new projects, hiring and promotions, and purchase of vehicles or furniture in the fourth quarter, while the newly created Council for Economic and Development Affairs must now approve all government projects worth more than $27 million.

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Russia deems SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 safe to launch cosmonauts

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Back in April 2014 , NASA had yet to even award the main Commercial Crew contracts that would fund the development of two new redundant crewed spacecraft and launch solutions. It’s quite likely that that price will drop even further in the likely event that NASA purchases additional Crew Dragon launches in the near future.

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