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SpaceX makes big changes to Starship’s Florida launch pad

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SpaceX has begun making drastic changes to its Starship launch pad in Florida after months of no activity. Do you think SpaceX will make a drastic design change based on lessons learned at Starbase, or will it be similar with just an added water suppression system? Questions or comments?

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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 resurgence of work on a totally different Starship pad design at 39A in late 2021 likely made that hardware redundant. Pad 39A’s Starship deluge ring.

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

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SpaceX broke ground on Starship’s first Florida OLS in late 2019. In late 2021, SpaceX finally began constructing the second iteration of Starship’s first Florida pad. SpaceX stress-tests the first ‘chopsticks’ with water bags. SpaceX has, nonetheless, made significant progress.

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SQUID-5 provides imagery of complex 3D seafloor features with high accuracy and geolocation

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Using recent advances in technology and newly developed equipment and software, SQUID-5 enables researchers to collect high-resolution images in shallow-water environments. The SQUID-5 system was originally designed to map nearshore coral reefs, an environment characterized by complex seabed surfaces in shallow, clear water.

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MBL begins first test of tropical seaweed farming for biofuels production

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A team of researchers led by Loretta Roberson, associate scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, has installed the first seaweed farm in Puerto Rico and US tropical waters. Additional farms are being tested in Florida and Belize to assess scalability. —Loretta Roberson.

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DOE selects 2 projects to demonstrate feasibility of enhanced water recovery; producing usable water from CO2 storage sites

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two projects that will test emerging enhanced water recovery (EWR) technologies for their potential to produce useable water from CO 2 storage sites. Once treated, the clean water could be re-used for beneficial purposes, including supplemental cooling water at a power station.

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DOE awards $500K to mitigate residual stress and improve corrosion resistance for molten salt reactors

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Lian, the principle investigator of the project, will be joined by collaborators Rahul Rahul, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Suvranu De, Florida A&M University-Florida State University; Lu Cai, Idaho National Laboratory Program; Patrick Shower, GE Global Research Center; and Eric Brown, US Army Benét Laboratory.