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

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SpaceX has installed a pair of rocket-catching arms on a tower meant to support the first East Coast launches of its next-generation Starship rocket. SpaceX began constructing Starship’s Texas launch site in earnest in late 2020. SpaceX stress-tests the first ‘chopsticks’ with water bags.

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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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Until recently, the residents of Melamchi, Nepal, cooked meals and heated water for bathing over a wood-burning stove. The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth.

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BP selects Technip for the Thunder Horse South Expansion project in the ultra-deep Gulf of Mexico

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awarded Technip a lump sum project for the design, engineering, fabrication, installation and pre-commissioning of the new production pipeline systems on the south side of the Thunder Horse production drilling quarters unit. Coating, fabrication, installation and permanent anchoring of two rigid production flowlines of 3.25

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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. Ultimately, it’s almost certain that the delivery is SpaceX hardware bound for Starbase, Texas. At least nine unused tanks have been sitting at Pad 39A for months.

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SpaceX’s upgraded Super Heavy booster sails through first major test

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On April 3rd, the launch mount’s “quick disconnect” device connected Super Heavy to the pad’s ground systems. At some point, SpaceX will also need to install a full 33 Raptor V2 engines on the booster and seal off the whole engine section and each Raptor with a heat shield. Starship Gazer). NASASpaceflight).

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BMW Group Technology Office USA and Tendril to demonstrate electric vehicle and smart energy home integration

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Tendril Connect consists of an integrated suite of utility and consumer applications and APIs. Tendril’s cloud-based energy management platform, Tendril Connect, will provide the connectivity to integrate the EV charging station into the home, to local utilities and energy service providers, as well as to BMW. Click to enlarge.

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SpaceX assembles world’s largest rocket with giant robot arms

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This time around, though, SpaceX used building-sized arms installed on Starbase’s ~145-meter-tall (~480 ft) ‘launch tower’ to lift to grapple Starship, lift massive upper stage more than 80 meters (260 ft) off the ground, and lower on top of a Super Heavy booster. 10 miles away through tons of haze.