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SpaceX’s Starship rocket sails through first “flight-like” fueling test

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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. The next heaviest rockets ever built, Saturn V and N-1 , weighed around 2800 tons (~6.2M Starship is FULLY fueled for the first time! lbs) fully loaded.

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

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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.

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Ohio State University Takes Top Spot at 2009 EcoCAR Competition with EREV Design

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The competition challenges university engineering students across North America to re-engineer a 2009 Saturn VUE to improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions while retaining the vehicle’s performance and consumer appeal. liter engine and fueled by E85 ethanol. Renewable fuels (when a liquid fuel is required).

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NASA’s Space Launch System Will Lift Off

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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. RS-25 engines developed for the shuttle mounted on its base.

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Swiss company outlines methanol-to-gasoline option for Alaska North Slope gas to state legislature

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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. The products also require refining processes to convert the F-T liquids to conventional fuels.

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