Green Car Congress
JUNE 13, 2009
University students from The Ohio State University earned top honors at the 2009 finals of the EcoCAR : The NeXt Challenge competition in Toronto, Canada for their design of a Extended Range Electric Vehicle (EREV). The Ohio State’s design was powered by a 1.8-liter liter engine and fueled by E85 ethanol. Plug-in capability.
Teslarati
OCTOBER 6, 2021
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. Starship’s central ‘thrust puck’ is just two or so meters in diameter and designed to support the ship’s three gimballing Raptor Center (RC) engines.
Teslarati
JANUARY 31, 2023
Located a stone’s throw from the Gulf of Mexico in Boca Chica, Texas, the first iteration of SpaceX’s Starbase orbital launch site (OLS) is nearly complete and could host Starship’s orbital launch debut in a matter of months. SpaceX began constructing Starship’s Texas launch site in earnest in late 2020.
Teslarati
JANUARY 23, 2023
It’s designed to launch more than 100 metric tons (~220,000 lb) to low Earth orbit (LEO) in a fully-reusable configuration. 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. lbs) fully loaded.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 26, 2021
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. Mounted on top of the core stage is what’s called the.
Green Car Congress
MAY 1, 2011
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. van Wijk sold Saturn to Methanex in 2000 due to funding issues. Janus subsidiary acquiring Eastman methanol plant.
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