The autonomous trucks stop only once a day for refuelling.
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Singapore is the world's biggest hub for ship refuelling, or bunkering.
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In fact, whether consumer or business, overnight refuelling is a popular option.
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Take a look at the construction process and the "refuelling" station now:
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In Norway, Europeans flaunted their armoured vehicles, air-refuelling tankers and transport aircraft.
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As refuelling stations spread, the internal-combustion engine went on to conquer all.
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The journey was scheduled to take around five hours with a refuelling stop.
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Shareholders backed its takeover of the air-to-air refuelling specialist in September.
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Observers said that the bomber's most notable feature was an aerial refuelling receptacle.
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The private jet was scheduled to stop for refuelling in Cobija, in Bolivia's north.
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In-air refuelling can help, but it cuts the number of sorties a lot.
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One month later, there was an explosion at a hydrogen refuelling station in Norway.
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Since it docked, North Korea has asked the South to provide oil for refuelling.
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The Penly 2 reactor has been offline since July 27 for maintenance and refuelling.
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And, because his kidneys were failing, his brain function worsened, refuelling the cycle of decay.
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It also already prints six components for the refuelling system of the A400M military transporter.
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Overall revenue from the unit rose 23%, benefiting from the acquisition of refuelling services company EPIC.
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Total also intends to maintain its presence in the Italian truck and aircraft refuelling markets, he said.
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Shortly afterwards, America ended in-flight refuelling for coalition aircraft in Yemen and called for peace talks.
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Gibraltar is the leading ship refuelling hub in the Mediterranean and Licudi expected that trade to continue.
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Singapore, the world's largest marine refuelling hub, has co-funded the construction of several LNG-fuelled vessels.
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In the meantime, however, the constraints around refuelling and the limited number of stations are causing much frustration.
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That meant that the refuelling stop in Cobija was not possible, as the airport there shuts down at night.
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Doveish Democrats have long wanted to end American support for the coalition, which includes aerial refuelling and intelligence-sharing.
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On the same trip Mr Xi used a refuelling stop in Alaska to butter up his hosts there, too.
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India also aims to expand the number of compressed natural gas (CNG) refuelling stations by 10-fold to 10,000.
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Another transportation startup has run out of gas while larger companies continue refuelling to tap into economies of scale.
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America's departure would leave vast holes in areas like air and missile defence, intelligence and surveillance, and aerial refuelling.
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US private equity firm Advent agreed to buy Cobham, known for its air-to-air refuelling technology, in July.
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The Navy's new drone is the MQ-25 Stingray, which will be restricted to demurely refuelling jets with pilots.
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Payments for repeatedly refuelling a vehicle at night might mean forced labour is being transported under the cover of darkness.
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They had impressive resources at their disposal: F-16 fighter-jets, aerial refuelling tankers, helicopter gunships and transporters, and tanks.
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Most of the other 600-plus Canadian Forces personnel will be stationed in Kuwait, maintaining Canada's surveillance and refuelling aircraft.
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Powering phone masts in remote areas is a challenge: phone companies typically rely on expensive diesel generators that need regular refuelling.
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These methods include using reusable rockets, refuelling the spaceship in space, and using a methane fuel instead of traditional rocket fuels.
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It supplies comms equipment to both the defence and commercial sectors and high tech systems such as air-to-air refuelling.
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Aerial refuelling could expand the H-6N's operational range by 500 km over the H-6K to more than 4,6.63 km.
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Canada will, however, continue selecting, or 'painting,' airstrike targets, mostly from its air base in Kuwait, and refuelling other coalition aircraft.
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Cobham faces execution risks on some of its big programmes in U.S. defence like the KC-46 air-to-air refuelling system.
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Engineering firm Cobham advanced 4.9 percent after agreeing to settle a dispute with Boeing over its delayed KC-46 aerial refuelling programme.
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Image: John Vachon/Library of CongressA motorist refuelling his Standard Vanguard at a rural Shell petrol station in Eastbourne, East Sussex, 1949.
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America, Russia and other countries are now exploring the possibility of using unmanned military planes to carry cargo and as refuelling tankers.
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Cobham said on Wednesday there remained "significant uncertainty" about Boeing's KC-46 air-to-air refuelling system, on which it is working.
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Consequently, the ability to refuel and rearm close to the front, by utilizing a Forward Arming and Refuelling Point (FARP) is key.
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It has backed the bombing campaign, providing targeting advice and refuelling sorties that have allowed Saudi jets to linger over the war zone.
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For refuelling and maintenance unmanageable from a submarine, the cylinder would be floated to the surface with air injected into its ballast tanks.
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Ireland provides landing and refuelling facilities to the U.S. military at the western Irish airport, the country's second busiest, particularly for transatlantic flights.
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International carriers United Air Lines and stopped services to Nigeria earlier this year, while others have begun refuelling abroad to avoid jet fuel shortages.
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The firm faces execution risks on some of its big programmes in U.S. defence such as the KC-46 air-to-air refuelling system.
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International carriers United and Iberia stopped their services to Nigeria earlier this year, while others have begun refuelling abroad to avoid jet fuel shortages.
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As a result, they will probably have to remain at least 1,000km away from shore, a distance that their warplanes cannot cross without refuelling.
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The ASIG unit provides refuelling, baggage handling, equipment maintenance and de-icing services across 80 airports in North America, Central America, Europe and Asia.
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In order to keep flying and fighting, special-operations units set up Forward Arming and Refuelling Point, which requires a specific set of skills.
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In theory it is a purely commercial venture, open to the ships of any country willing to pay for the maintenance and refuelling it provides.
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As for refuelling, there are only 34 hydrogen filling-stations open to the public in the whole of America, all but three being in California.
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Italian defence and aerospace group Leonardo has invested in a company developing solar-powered drones potentially capable of unlimited flight with no refuelling, it said.
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In Yemen, the United States has already ceased refuelling Saudi jets, while European states, particularly Germany, have scaled back or stopped military exports to Riyadh.
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This is American territory, claimed by a naval gunboat in 1899 and maintained today as an aircraft refuelling stop and test site for missile defence systems.
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The European-led interventions in Libya and Mali exposed dependence on America in vital areas such as air-to-air refuelling and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
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America's air force wants, as far as possible, to robotise cargo, refuelling and reconnaissance missions, leaving the manned stuff mostly to its top-gun fighter pilots.
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During his last attempt on July 25 he struggled to land on the refuelling platform mounted on a boat and ended up in the sea, unharmed.
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Refuelling conventional petrol and diesel cars on motorways has long been the domain of the oil companies, which typically have their own networks of filling stations.
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Just 11,000 hydrogen-powered cars are on the road, according to IEA figures, together with 20,000 fork-lift trucks in warehouse use, where refuelling is simpler.
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The port at Fujairah, on the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), serves mostly as a refuelling depot for ships plying the Strait of Hormuz.
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On December 226th its navy duly dispatched an impressive-looking carrier battle-group with three escorting destroyers, a couple of frigates, a corvette and a refuelling ship.
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With their governments' approval, Western arms companies provide the intelligence, logistical support and air-to-air refuelling to fly far more daily sorties than Russia can muster.
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With their governments' approval, Western arms companies provide the intelligence, logistical support and air-to-air refuelling to fly far more daily sorties than Russia can muster .
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That includes 21 billion won on FCVs and refuelling stations, up 2194% from this year and a huge leap from the 29.8 billion won spent in 2018.
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However, the rogue aircraft were able to keep flying through the night by refuelling mid-air after a tanker plane was commandeered, the first senior official said.
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Leadsom had earlier put the deal on hold while she established whether the sale of the air-to-air refuelling equipment maker posed a national security threat.
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Certainly, such a capability avoids the commitment of a squadron of strike aircraft and refuelling support that is required to keep an armed plane permanently on station.
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Besides refuelling them, it could do such things as plugging in electronics upgrades, extending jammed telescopic antennae and unfolding arrays of solar panels that had not deployed properly.
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Enter, also, hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, which have a driving range and refuelling time similar to those of conventional vehicles, and an exhaust that is just water vapour.
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Known for its air-to-air refuelling technology, Cobham had been in recovery mode since a string of profit warnings forced it into a rights issue in 2017.
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Sydney Seaplanes has been operating since 1938, originally flying from Australia to Britain, a journey that required thirty refuelling stops along what became famous as the "Kangaroo" route.
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Known for its air-to-air refuelling technology, Cobham had been in recovery mode since a string of profit warnings forced it into a rights issue in 13.
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Even on its lighter trips, when acting as an ITS tanker for refuelling other ITS spaceships, the booster will need to carry 380 tonnes of propellant into LEO.
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While airlines have been permitted to import jet fuel, they have not really done so as most of the refuelling infrastructure at airports is controlled by local refiners.
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Total will supply around 270,000 tonnes of LNG per year over 10 years at Marseille, while also providing a complementary refuelling service in Singapore, according to the statement.
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But problems remained with some of the plane's classified defensive systems, as well as some types of paratrooper drop and helicopter refuelling, prompting a new set of contract talks.
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But problems remained with some of the planes classified defensive systems, as well as some types of paratrooper drop and helicopter refuelling, prompting a new set of contract talks.
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The Wing Aerial Refuelling Pod programme is now expected to complete around the middle of 2020, with associated flight tests expected to start in the first half of 2019.
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The astronauts expect to remain in Tiangong 2 for about a month, testing systems and processes for mid-term stays in space and refuelling, and conduct medical and other experiments.
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Morally and perhaps legally, America and Britain are implicated in Saudi actions: they sell warplanes and munitions to the Saudi regime; they also provide air-refuelling and help with targeting.
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The refit of the vessel, and its sister ship, the Izumo, is expected to bolster U.S. forces operating from Japan by providing a refuelling platform for U.S. Marine F-35Bs.
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PEM is becoming cheaper and has faster response times, which works better with intermittent renewables, and can be used on a small scale, which is suitable for hydrogen refuelling stations.
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A big problem is that Aerion and Boom's aircraft will be only able to fly just over 8,000km without refuelling—not enough to cross the Pacific Ocean in one hop.
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However, it is still hard to persuade people to switch to piped gas as LPG cylinders are well entrenched in India and the refuelling infrastructure for natural gas is minimal.
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SSL and NASA successfully passed the Preliminary Design Review stage for the Restore-L mission, which aims to combine robotics to create a platform for latching onto and refuelling LEO satellites.
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In 2006 American officials refused to grant Chen Shui-bian, then Taiwan's president, a layover in New York or San Francisco, offering him instead a refuelling stop in Alaska or Hawaii.
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Port authorities in 2017 ranked Brightoil Singapore, a unit of Hong Kong-listed Brightoil Petroleum, as the 17th largest supplier of marine fuels in Singapore, the world's largest marine refuelling hub.
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Condor's fleet includes an Airbus A330 that doubles as a reserve aerial refuelling tanker for the Royal Air Force, leased with a crew from UK consortium Air Tanker, according to IBA.
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In December the German parliament approved plans to join the military campaign against Islamic State in Syria in a mission that includes sending reconnaissance jets, a frigate, refuelling aircraft and military personnel.
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Reactor number 1 was online with output at around 890 MW, while reactor 4 has been offline since May 5 for planned maintenance and refuelling, is scheduled to restart on July 16.
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A constraint with LNG refuelling is that it takes about twice as long as for traditional oil-based ship fuel, partly due to security requirements, Xavier Leclercq, CMA CGM's fleet director, added.
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One of the aircraft, an Airbus A330, doubles as a reserve aerial refuelling tanker for the Royal Air Force and is leased with a crew from UK defence industry consortium Air Tanker.
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While a hydrogen car can refuel in under five minutes, the high cost of the technology and a lack of refuelling stations is a problem, something Toyota has been focused on addressing.
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Cobham, which is known for its air-to-air refuelling technology, has been trying to turn around its business after a string of profit warnings forced it into a rights issue in 2017.
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Funded largely by Chinese investors, port operator T.A.G. Marine and developer Linggi Base are building the 12.5 billion ringgit ($2.82 billion) Kuala Linggi International Port (KLIP) to offer storage, repair and refuelling services.
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"By continually listening to customer pain-points around booking processes, damage reporting, refuelling, communication and transparency, we can tackle these long-standing issues in new ways with technology as the solution," he says.
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Cobham, which specialises in aerial refuelling equipment, said it expected trading in its defence business to remain stable in 2016 but its consumer business faces challenges due to lower spending by its customers.
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That will enable the aircraft, which was modelled on the Soviet Tu-16 jet bomber, to carry out in-flight refuelling – significantly boosting its operating range compared to its predecessor, the H-6K.
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On Thursday, Singapore Airlines said all of its Europe-bound flights would now continue as planned, without the need for refuelling stops, and they would reroute to avoid the affected airspace as necessary.
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LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. endurance swimmer Sarah Thomas has become the first person to swim across the English Channel four times without stopping, refuelling only on a liquid formula during her 54-hour feat.
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Moon is set to spend $1.8 billion in central government funds to subsidise car sales and to build refuelling stations for the five years to 2022 at current subsidy levels, Reuters calculations show.
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The opening of STS marine refuelling, also known as bunkering, is significant because it makes the cleaner fuel more accessible to shippers, said Cees Boon, senior safety adviser at the Port of Rotterdam.
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He added the main purpose was for China to use the naval base to protect its national interest — monitoring its merchant vessels passing the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and for naval refuelling and restocking.
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The magazine said the German Bundeswehr was evaluating whether it could move the warplanes and refuelling aircraft, which are supporting the U.S.-led coalition's aerial attacks on Islamic State targets, to Jordan or Cyprus.
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Zapata, who wowed crowds during France's Bastille Day celebrations on July 14 by soaring over a military parade in Paris on the device, rejigged refuelling arrangements this time, with a bigger boat and platform.
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The air force said the A4003M had taken part in nearly 1,700 missions and formed the backbone of its air transport for carrying personnel and material, air-to-air refuelling and humanitarian aid missions.
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Analysts say FCVs can refuel faster than an EV can recharge and can travel longer distances, making them a potentially attractive option for larger vehicles - though the cost and limited refuelling infrastructure pose challenges.
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Business minister Andrea Leadsom had put the deal on hold to review the sale of air-to-air refuelling equipment maker Cobham, which employs 10,000 people and also makes communications equipment for military vehicles.
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The two astronauts will dock with the Tiangong 2 space laboratory and spend about a month there, testing systems and processes for mid-term stays in space and refuelling, besides conducting medical and other experiments.
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Fuel cells will also have to be more rugged and better able to operate in freezing weather, and more refuelling stations will be needed, along with better systems for getting the green hydrogen to them.
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The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) said EU countries must improve charging and refuelling infrastructure, which was non-existent for electric and hydrogen trucks and "very low and patchy" for trucks powered by natural gas.
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One of the three not operating has been shut down by a court order that expires in September, while the other two are under regular maintenance and refuelling and due to start operating within weeks.
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An Air Force official and other unnamed sources told the Journal that the military refuelling jet with the MCAS system also has another safeguard, which lets pilots override the system by pulling on the controls.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British engineer Cobham will take an additional exceptional charge of 160 million pounds ($206 million) to settle a dispute with Boeing over its delayed KC-46 aerial refuelling programme, it said on Tuesday.
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And in July, U.S. private equity firm Advent International agreed to pay 4 billion pounds ($5 billion) to buy Cobham , the British defence and aerospace group known for its pioneering air-to-air refuelling technology.
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The challenges of building out refuelling infrastructure in South Korea underscore the long and uphill battle FCVs face to widespread adoption at a time when electric cars are stealing much of the green car limelight.
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It is also capable of running for years or even decades without refuelling, and scientists say that because it produces neither dust nor smoke, even on a small island a resident would hardly notice its existence.
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It was built across the estuary of the river Shannon from Foynes, a small town that had served in the interwar years as a refuelling stop for seaplanes and passengers on their way across the Atlantic.
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The Singapore Strait is one of the world's busiest shipping superhighways, allowing Singapore to position itself as the world's largest bunkering hub with more than 40,000 ships calling at the city-state for refuelling each year.
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Since adopting mass flow meters (MFM) to streamline operations on marine refuelling, or bunkering, barges at the start of 2017, suppliers in Singapore have seen margins squeezed and competition surge in the battle for market share.
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One of his planes, Voyager, looked like a jumble of toothpicks, but it was the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refuelling; Proteus, which set several altitude records, resembled a prehistoric bird.
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But with Sweden and Finland considering following Norway's lead -- all three say that by 2030 they want to increase aviation biofuel use to 30% of total refuelling -- there is a danger that demand will outstrip production.
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The U.S. currently provides refuelling, intelligence and targeting support to the Saudis, whose aerial bombing campaign and war with Yemen's Houthi rebels has led to tens of thousands of deaths and widespread famine, according to UN reports.
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With investment, Riversimple aims to have 20 Rasa cars on UK roads in a trial this year, having already received 2 million euros from the EU. You'd just better hope there's a hydrogen refuelling station near you.
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Cobham, which specialises in aerial refuelling equipment, said on Tuesday that it would start a cost-cutting programme after first quarter profit fell by 70 percent to 15 million pounds, impacted by delayed shipments and cost increases.
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Founded in 2016 by Bennis and Romain Saint Guilhem, Zebra Fuel was attempting to bring the convenience of on-demand delivery (or, more accurately, book ahead delivery, since it isn't really on-demand) to refuelling your car.
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Total will supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) and a refuelling barge to enable CMA CGM to refuel LNG-powered vessels at the Marseille-Fos hub starting in 2021, the companies said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
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In December, the U.S. military grounded its Osprey fleet in Japan after one of the aircraft ditched into the sea, injuring its crew of five when a hose connected to the aircraft broke during a refuelling exercise.
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The company has joined forces in Japan with rivals Nissan Motor Co and Honda Motor Co, and with energy companies such as JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy to build a network of refuelling stations that now totals 91.
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Founded in 2016 by Reda Bennis and Romain Saint Guilhem, Zebra Fuel is attempting to bring the convenience of on-demand delivery (or, more accurately, book ahead delivery, since it isn't really on-demand) to refuelling your car.
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Airbus blames engine makers and political meddling for the program's chronic problems, but has also struggled to fill gaps in parachuting or refuelling capacity as well as the defensive systems needed to take the combat aircraft to war.
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However, the currency plunged to $1.31 just days later as Johnson's government set a deadline of the end of 2020 for the U.K.'s departure from the bloc, refuelling concerns about the possibility of a no-deal Brexit.
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Its distinguishing feature—and the reason it exists—is its airport, which opened in 1938 and was once the largest in the world, making Gander a crucial transatlantic refuelling stop in the days before long-range jet travel.
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The aviation services provider agreed last week to sell its Ontic aircraft parts and services unit for $1.37 billion, leaving it with its Signature unit, which provides a range of services including passenger handling, aircraft refuelling and ground handling.
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Von der Leyen said the EU's current military structure had glaring inefficiencies, that led to the "waste of huge amounts of money," including the use of 37 different types of armoured vehicles, 12 refuelling planes and 19 fighter jets.
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SINGAPORE, April 24 (Reuters) - The port of Rotterdam expects to see its first ship-to-ship (STS) liquefied natural gas (LNG) refuelling operation in June, marking an important milestone in the use of the cleaner burning fuel in shipping.
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A spokesman for the German Defence Ministry on Thursday said the armed forces were studying other basing options for six Tornado reconnaissance planes, a refuelling plane and 250 soldiers if German lawmakers vote to end the use of the base.
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CAC-240 futures up 0.51 pct at 0619 GMT The French power utility said on Wednesday it was lowering its 2016 earnings expectations due to lower output as stepped-up safety controls cause several planned refuelling outages to be extended.
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Failings in Europe's bombing campaign in Libya in 2011, when the United States had to step in with refuelling planes, and Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea have reignited EU defence plans that date back to the 13s but have remained elusive.
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The air force said the A4003M had participated in nearly 1,700 missions and formed the backbone of its air transport, being used for carrying personnel and material, air-to-air refuelling, returning soldiers needing medical care and in humanitarian aid missions.
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Shares of the company, which specialises in aerial refuelling equipment, fell as much as 10.2 percent to 232.4 pence at 0910 GMT, making them the largest percentage losers on the FTSE250 on Thursday, and posting their worst fall in three years.
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The plan is not for the alliance to have jets based there permanently, but for it to be an operational base for refuelling and for ammunition to be stored in its communist-era tunnels, originally built to house 100 warplanes.
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Hydrogen stand operator Sung said while refuelling itself takes about 5-7 minutes, the next driver must wait another 20 minutes before sufficient pressure builds in the storage tank to supply the hydrogen or the car's tank will not be full.
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France is already in the process of buying four C-130J aircraft from Lockheed partly to allow refuelling of helicopters used by its special forces, a feature originally meant to be supplied by the A400M but abandoned for technical reasons.
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SANGATTE, France, Aug 4 (Reuters) - French inventor Franky Zapata on Sunday succeeded in crossing the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard he designed, having abandoned a previous bid after failing to land on a refuelling platform and falling into the sea.
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Failings in Europe's bombing campaign in Libya in 2011, when the United States had to step in with refuelling planes, and Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea have reignited calls for greater EU defence cooperation that date back to the 1950s but have made little progress.
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The letters of intent, although not legally binding, are the latest sign that European allies are starting to end years of competing national strategies that have left Europe reliant on the United States to provide basics such as refuelling combat planes in the air.
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To be included in the sales total, models sold by Nissan need to either be pure electric or e-POWER vehicles (Nissan's hybrid system that delivers the performance benefits of a fully electric powertrain with the range and refuelling benefits of an internal combustion engine).
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Better understanding of the far side will affect governments' and private plans for putting people back on the Moon, for establishing stations permanently orbiting the Moon and, one day perhaps, for developing the Moon into a refuelling station for missions to Mars and beyond.
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Electric vehicle startup NIO has launched its first production car, the ES8 – a fully electric SUV with 220 miles of range, fast charging that will top off the battery entirely in one hour of charging, battery pack swapping capabilities for thee-minute refuelling and more.
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Shares in FTSE 250 company Cobham, which has this year been hit by additional costs to complete its work on Boeing's troubled KC-46 aerial refuelling programme, traded up 0.7 percent to 126 pence after the news that the FCA had dropped its probe.
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SINGAPORE, Jan 20.5 (Reuters) - PetroChina's Singapore bunkering unit moved up a notch to be the top marine fuel supplier in the world's biggest ship refuelling hub in 22020, official data showed, as the overall number of suppliers fell for a sixth year in a row.
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So apparently Voyager 1 left our solar system on July 27, 2012A re-interpretation of Voyager 1 data is refuelling the debate over whether the spacecraft has…Read more ReadThe record's gold-plated aluminum jacket explains where it came from, and how it should be played.
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Other U.S.-made equipment on Japan's shopping list includes two land-based Aegis Ashore air defense radars to defend against North Korean missiles, four Boeing Co KC-46 Pegasus refuelling planes to extend the range of Japanese aircraft, and nine Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye early-warning planes.
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Located on the east coast of the United Arab Emirates at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, Fujairah is one of two major ports in the region along with Oman's Sohar and is a busy refuelling point for tankers taking crude on long voyages out of the Gulf.
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Fujairah, located on the east coast of the UAE at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, is one of two major bunkering ports in the region along with Oman's Sohar and is a busy refuelling point for tankers taking crude on long voyages out of the Gulf.
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The AG600's chief designer, Huang Lingcai, was quoted in the official China Daily earlier this month as saying it can make round trips without refuelling from the southern island province of Hainan to James Shoal, claimed by China but which is located close to Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo.
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The emirate of Fujairah, located on the east coast of the UAE at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, is one of two major bunkering ports in the region along with Oman's Sohar and is a busy refuelling point for tankers taking crude on long voyages out of the Gulf.
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Tomohiko Taniguchi, the Prime Minister's special adviser, told CNN that Abe was already scheduled to travel from Japan to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Peru and would naturally have to stop in the U.S. for refuelling, so during their phone conversation on November 10, the pair agreed to a meeting in New York.
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When a flight of three H-250Ns passed over Beijing during rehearsals for the October 1 military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic, military experts and aircraft enthusiasts reported two distinct new features: an aerial refuelling probe on the planes' noses and a semi-recessed area on their bellies.
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Basically, Smart's visions EQ fortwo sounds makes clear a lot of the long-term bets Daimler has made with car2go, and what they hope to accomplish with tech improvements in shoring up the weaknesses and major expenses of the service offering right now: autonomy and electrification would answer the biggest challenges, including finding parking, refuelling, and redistributing the fleet to accommodate traffic patterns and demand.
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PARIS, July 25 (Reuters) - A French inventor failed in his attempt on Thursday to cross the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard when he missed a landing platform mounted on a boat as he tried to land midway for refuelling, a member of his technical team said Franky Zapata was making his attempt on the 110th anniversary of the first powered flight between Britain and France.
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