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However the rocket is not reusable, unlike SpaceX's Falcon 9 workhorse.

The report highlights China’s control of obscure areas of industry, such as the foundational semiconductor chips that are the “workhorse components that drive the modern economy and a modern military.”

The enhanced clarity is why VistaVision hung on longer with the makers of old-school optical effects, serving as a workhorse for the original “Star Wars” trilogy and other pictures into the 21st century.

In the near term, Fermi bets it can quickly add infrastructure for natural gas, the workhorse of the U.S. power grid that supplies about 40% of the nation’s electricity.

"Germanium is already a workhorse material for advanced semiconductor technologies, so by showing it can also become superconducting under controlled growth conditions there's now potential for scalable, foundry-ready quantum devices."