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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 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.

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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. For Florida’s first Starship launch tower, SpaceX has spent more than three months assembling and meticulously outfitting the first six of nine prefabricated tower sections before the first stack. lb) of liquid methane (LCH4).

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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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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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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

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& Guidestar testing ramped up in a second location, Florida, after San Jose testing received positive reviews. It was neither as clean looking nor as slick as the Aurora show car, but could be installed without major changes to the dash. Each map cartridge installed in the system cost an additional $400 ($817 adj.).

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Velodyne Lidar acquires AI software company Bluecity

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The solution is deployed across four continents with 74 installations, including systems rolled out domestically in California, Colorado, Florida, New Jersey, Maryland, Texas, Nevada and Michigan and internationally in Canada, China, UAE, India, Finland, Germany and Australia.

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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 California Air Resources Board reached. and Hypertech, Inc. Hypertech, Inc.,