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SpaceX to replicate Starbase, build multiple Starship launch pads in Florida

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Less than two weeks after CEO Elon Musk revealed that SpaceX has restarted construction of a Starship launch site at Kennedy Space Center’s existing LC-39A pad, NASA has revealed the company’s plans for an entirely different Starship launch site just a few miles to the north.

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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 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. lbf) – more than twice that of the current record-holder, NASA’s famous Saturn V Moon rocket. 33 engine boosters anyone?

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

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Since SpaceX began assembling Starhopper in an empty Texas field in 2018, the Starship program has been almost exclusively managed to prioritize speed and expect failures. The next heaviest rockets ever built, Saturn V and N-1 , weighed around 2800 tons (~6.2M lbs) fully loaded. Starship is FULLY fueled for the first time!

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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. Inside the. We’re going to fly when the hardware’s ready to fly.”.

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Swiss company outlines methanol-to-gasoline option for Alaska North Slope gas to state legislature

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In January, ICIS reported that Eastman Chemical reached an agreement to sell a mothballed Texas methanol and ammonia plant to Pandora Methanol, a subsidiary of Janus Methanol. Janus Methanol is a methanol and chemical development and operating company. van Wijk sold Saturn to Methanex in 2000 due to funding issues. Source: EMRE.

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