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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). lb) of liquid methane (LCH4).

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Renault-Nissan Alliance Forms EV Partnership with City of Orlando, Florida

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Nissan also has agreed to make available a supply of electric vehicles to the City of Orlando and in and around the metropolitan area and Orange County, Fla. OUC has been working towards helping Central Florida become plug-in ready, and recently installed two charging stations in downtown Orlando, one of which is solar powered.

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Rhode Island & Connecticut’s 704 MW Revolution Wind achieves first ‘steel in the water’

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During the offshore construction phase, a variety of vessels will be active at the site, including construction and transport barges, cable installation vessels, tugboats, supply and support vessels, and protected species observer monitor vessels. Get started here. –ad* ad* FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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New Techniques Can Identify Hard-to-Spot FPGA Fakes

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So having this flexibility adds a great value to FPGA,” explains Alexandro Castellanos , an engineering professor at the University of South Florida. Like other chips, FPGA supplies were impacted by pandemic supply-chain issues. That’s what makes it so valuable, strategically. In one prominent example from 2011, the U.S.

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Wärtsilä to equip first US ocean-going LNG fueling barge

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The vessel will be used to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel to cruise ships along the east coast of Florida, USA. Wärtsilä will also supply the barge automation, power management, and ballast water management systems, as well the bow thruster. When delivered, the vessel will be on a long-term charter with Shell Oil Co.

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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

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“Within the HVAC world, innovations tend to be small and progressive: there’s not some silver bullet,” says Wade Conlan , an engineer in Maitland, Florida, and vice president of ASHRAE , a heating and air-conditioning standards-setting organization. Whereas, replacing residential furnaces stands to make a bigger impact.

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