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Velodyne Lidar acquires AI software company Bluecity

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Velodyne Lidar has acquired Bluecity, a Montreal-based artificial intelligence (AI) software company, in an all-stock transaction. According to Yole Intelligence, part of Yole Group, the smart infrastructure market for lidar will grow from $108M in 2021 to $1.1B

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NetJets and FlightSafety International to partner with eVTOL company Lilium; right to purchase up to 150 Lilium Jets

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the largest private aviation company in the world, and FlightSafety International, a leader in professional aviation training, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Lilium, makers of an all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) jet ( earlier post ), for a proposed strategic partnership. NetJets Inc.,

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SpaceX begins stacking Florida Starship launch tower

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SpaceX has begun stacking Starship’s first Florida launch tower. Less than half a year after the company restarted work on a Starship launch pad located just a few hundred feet away from existing Falcon launch facilities at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) LC-39A pad, a massive new launch tower has begun to take shape.

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SpaceX preparing giant crane to assemble Starship’s first Florida launch tower

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SpaceX has begun staging and assembling parts of a giant crane it will soon need to stack Starship’s first East Coast launch tower and install other major launch pad components. More parts of this crane were brought in this morning, including the cabin for the operator. Plenty of parts are still missing, of course.

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California ARB fines two companies $507K for selling illegal aftermarket parts for cars & trucks

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to resolve violations of the California Health and Safety Code related to the advertising and sales of illegal aftermarket performance parts in California, especially tuner products made for diesel pick-up truck engines. Florida-based Derive Systems, Inc., The company is also implementing a buyback program. and Hypertech, Inc.

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SpaceX installs rocket-catching arms on Starship’s Florida launch tower

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The company has been building the second of several planned Starship launch sites for more than three years. Ironically, work on that pad began before the company started building the pad that will actually support Starship’s first orbital launch attempts. SpaceX broke ground on Starship’s first Florida OLS in late 2019.

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SpaceX to ship Starship ‘deluge’ hardware from Florida to Starbase

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SpaceX appears to be preparing to ship a huge collection of hardware – including parts of a possible launch deluge system – from Florida to Texas. The most interesting part of the shipment is arguably a group of giant metal tubes. Starship’s Florida deluge Some part of SpaceX knows that.

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