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SpaceX to re-examine all engines after Starship booster rocket blast

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The blast occurred in the midst of a days-long static fire test campaign in Boca Chica, Texas, of the booster, equipped with 33 Raptor engines. SpaceX will re-examine all its engines for the Starship spacecraft after the booster rocket burst into flames during a static engine test on Tuesday. Elon Musk said that while the damage is minor, they will re-examine the engines to see if others have issues too. The decision was taken after the company reviewed a fire that occurred as part of its Super Heavy booster rocket development. Meanwhile, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) maintained that the law "limits the FAA’s safety oversight to protecting the public during scheduled launch and reentry operations. Yesterday’s event does not fall under the agency’s jurisdiction." The blast occurred in the midst of a days-long static fire test campaign in Boca Chica, Texas, of the booster, equipped with 33 Raptor engines for use in an upcoming unmanned orbital test flight SpaceX

THE SLICKNew Mexico’s Oil and Gas Revenues Are Breaking Records and Complicating Budgets

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  Oil and gas revenues added more than $1.7 billion to New Mexico coffers in the first four months of the year — more than in any other four-month period in state history. A lot more. Records compiled by the New Mexico Tax and Revenue Department show that year-on-year, revenues from January through April more than doubled from $782 million in 2021 — itself a record year. (Records lag by two months to allow producers time to report their production numbers.) This money gusher comes from increasing production in New Mexico’s portion of the Permian Basin — currently the most productive oilfield on the planet — and skyrocketing oil and gas prices brought on by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. State Sen. George Muñoz (D-Gallup), vice chair of the powerful Legislative Finance Committee, says that committee economists peg the state’s likely take from oil and gas at $5.2 billion for the fiscal year — roughly a billion more than last year’s oil and gas revenue. That tally may rise if world oil