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SpaceX’s fully integrated Starship rocket during the wet dress rehearsal on January 23, 2023. Gif: SpaceX/GizmodoOn Monday, SpaceX completed its first attempt to load a fully stacked Starship rocket with propellants, and it did so with surprisingly little fanfare. The seemingly successful test marks a major milestone for the company, setting the stage for a static fire test and an eventual orbital launch. The company ran the wet dress rehearsal at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas. Standing 394 feet (120…

Starship prototype 24 stacked on top of Super Heavy booster prototype 7 at the company's facility near Brownsville, Texas on January 9, 2023.SpaceXSpaceX announced on Monday it completed a major test of its latest Starship prototype, as the company prepares for the first orbital launch of the towering rocket.Starship prototype 24, stacked on Super Heavy booster prototype 7, was fueled up at SpaceX's Starbase facility in Texas in a test known as a "wet dress rehearsal." While the test does not include firing up the…

A UK-based aviation project called NUNCATS has successfully completed the maiden flight of its all-electric plane, described as an “electric sky jeep.” Looking ahead, the project’s goal is to expand the availability of healthcare by transporting doctors, medical supplies, and other cargo to remote parts of the world with zero emissions, helping save lives. NUNCATS began as a mere idea among its cofounder while still at university and would take fifteen years before coming to fruition in 2019. It…

SpaceX’s next-generation Starship super heavy-lift rocket is one step closer to the day when it may finally fly. On Monday, SpaceX fueled a fully stacked Starship for the first time. The “wet dress rehearsal” saw the company load the vehicle’s Super Heavy and Starship stages with more than 10 million pounds of liquid oxygen and methane fuel. Additionally, SpaceX ran through some of the countdown procedures it will need to complete on launch day. “Today’s test will help verify a full launch countdown sequence, as well as…

SpaceX has completed the first-ever wet dress rehearsal of its stacked Super Heavy rocket and Starship spacecraft. The exercise, which involves fueling SpaceX’s next-generation rocket and working through pre-launch procedures, is an important step toward the vehicle’s first orbital test flight, which could take place in February or March. The rehearsal took place at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, on Monday. SpaceX announced the completion of the test in a tweet, but it omitted to say whether it had…

ZeroAvia flew the world’s largest hydrogen-electric aircraft today in a step forward for sustainable aviation. The 19-seat, twin-engine Dornier 228 plane, fitted with a prototype hydrogen-electric powertrain, completed a 10-minute flight from Cotswold Airport in the UK. It was part of the HyFlyer II project, a government-funded R&D program working to make small passenger planes better for the environment. The powertrain was fueled using “compressed gaseous hydrogen produced with an on-site electrolyzer.” The testing…

Less than a month after receiving a permit to fly from the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), hydrogen-electric plane developer ZeroAvia has successfully completed the first flight of its 19-passenger aircraft. It’s maiden flight marks the record for the largest aircraft in the world to be powered by a hydrogen-electric engine, representing a huge moment for clean aviation. ZeroAvia is a zero-emission aviation company that develops planes that utilize hydrogen-electric propulsion. The company…

<!----> A Tata unit has completed its acquisition of Ford India’s factory in Sanand. Tata Passenger Electric Mobility (TPEML) and Ford India Private (FIPL) had inked a deal last 7 August for the complex including all land & buildings, the car plant and its machinery and equipment…

Last Updated: December 26, 2022, 11:31 ISTDMRC Trains. (Photo: Shutterstock/DMRC Twitter) Delhi Metro is the largest metro network in India and among the largest metros in the world with advanced technologies such as driverless metro operationsThe Delhi Metro on Saturday completed 20 years of successful operations in the national capital region.The Delhi Metro operations started on December 24, 2002, when the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee flagged off the first-ever train on the 8.4 km long Shahdara to Tis…

<!----> Yves Bonnefont and Laszlo Kishonti sign the acquisition agreement Stellantis has finalised the acquisition of aiMotive, a developer of advanced artificial intelligence and autonomous driving software.   Stellantis says the acquisition enhances Stellantis’ artificial…