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DTN 119: Space Weed
Plus: Spacecraft lost at sea, superconducting motors, the Navy’s 400kW laser, wildfire-spotting satellites, NY’s new nuclear plant, mosquito drones, 3D-printed bones, and more.
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Plus: Spacecraft lost at sea, superconducting motors, the Navy’s 400kW laser, wildfire-spotting satellites, NY’s new nuclear plant, mosquito drones, 3D-printed bones, and more.
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Ian Villa is COO and co-founder of Whisper Aero, an aviation and aerospace company developing ultra-quiet and electric propulsion systems for aircraft, drones, and other air-moving applications.
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Plus: Honda launches and lands a reusable rocket, Chinese satellites attempt on-orbit refueling, Finland warms up its sand battery, nuclear for desalination, nuclear for space travel, missiles as a service, FDA fast lane for new drugs, and more.
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Caleb Appleton is partner at Bison Ventures, a VC firm investing in early-stage frontier technology companies focused on creating healthier people and a healthier planet.
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Plus: First large-scale error-free quantum computer, AI hurricane forecasting, rebooting dead human brains, stratospheric airships, illegal AI therapy bots, and more.
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Amolak Badesha is the CEO and co-founder of Orbital Composites, a company building autonomous systems, from tactical drones to reentry heat shields, that reshape how aerospace hardware gets built.
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Plus: Neuromorphic computing, driverless semis, electronic tattoos, fungal batteries, human brain cells on a chip for sale, another private lander crashes on the moon, preparing for deaths in space, and more.
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Adam Draper is the founder and managing director of Boost VC, a pre-seed venture capital firm that writes first checks for deep tech startups across crypto, space, biotech, robotics, and AI.
Plus: Colossal's endangered species biovault, Chinese supercomputer passes US for fastest in the world, the first nuclear clocks, electronics can now be printed on to living tissue, and more.
René Kromhof is a founding partner at Cloudberry VC, Europe's first venture capital firm dedicated to semiconductors, photonics, and advanced materials.
Plus: Valar Atomics goes critical, US battery manufacturing breaks records, first therapy to make cells young again given to a human, autonomous labs are running 24/7, missile production's motor bottleneck, quantum hyperdimensional computing, and more.
Will Edwards is the co-founder and CEO of Firehawk Aerospace, a defense technology company that uses 3D printing to mass-produce rocket propellant, solid rocket motors, and full rocket systems.
Plus: Avalanche's desktop fusion reactor, NASA's X-59 goes supersonic, NY lawmakers pass first in US data center moratorium, China's big bet on big nuclear reactors, and more.
Viktor Shpakovsky is an investment partner at Beyond Earth Ventures, a $30 million venture capital fund investing in transformative deep tech across space tech, robotics, energy, and compute.
Plus: Agtech investment is booming, SpaceX outlines plans for Starfall re-entry vehicles, AI executives call for stricter regulations on synthetic biology, the people who want AI to replace humanity, and more.
Brian Wilcove is the managing director of America's Frontier Fund (AFF), a sovereign-aligned venture capital firm investing in frontier technologies to strengthen U.S. innovation and economic competitiveness.
Plus: Blue Origin's mega-rocket explodes, race to mine the deep sea, IBM's first pure-play quantum chip foundry, NASA selects companies for moon base awards, and more.
Plus: Biomanufacturing to reshape organ transplants, grid batteries are booming, quantum's make-or-break moment, growing chickens in 3D printed eggs, Japan sells out of robot wolves, in-space refueling demo, and more.
Plus: Helium-3 lunar gold rush, Virgin Galactic to begin commercial service, Cowboy files for 20k orbital data centers, non-viral gene therapy, real life gundams, and more.