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Rocket Factory Augsburg: Third on our list is Rocket Factory Augsburg, headquartered in the Bavarian city of the same name, with plans for a three-stage rocket dubbed RFA One that could eventually deliver up to 1.3 metric tons (2,866 pounds) of payload mass into a polar Sun-synchronous orbit.—ArsTechnica, 9 July 2025 The output will include up to approximately 5.5 metric tons of renewable hydrogen per day (equivalent to ~2,000 metric tons per year), which will be cleaned to 99.999% purity, suitable for fuel cell and mobility applications.—David Blekhman, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025 Researchers at Princeton University have calculated that the bill will increase the U.S.’s emissions by almost two hundred million metric tons per year by 2030.—Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 7 July 2025 In fact, Japan imports 770,000 metric tons of rice every year without any tariffs, around half of which comes from the U.S. Above that, Japan imposes a tariff of ¥341 (about $2.30) per kilogram.—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 7 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for metric ton
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