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... that electrothermal-chemical technology can now almost double the muzzle energy of a tank gun?
... that the Narita Shinkansen from Tokyo to Narita International Airport, which took nine years to build 9 km of track bed, is the only bullet train line ever officially cancelled?
... that the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, founded in 1968, is one of the three inaugural satellite launch sites of the People's Republic of China?
... that VolgaGES in Russia is the largest hydroelectric station in Europe as it produces 2541 MW?
... that Malin Space Science Systems operates the camera on the Mars Global Surveyor (pictured)?