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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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Plus: Date night for AI-human couples, Moonbase Alpha, India boosts deep tech startups, Falcon 9 returns to flight, the economics of orbital AI, and more.
Alexandre Kremer is the co-founder and COO of Radical Dot, a Munich-based climate deep tech startup developing a low-temperature catalytic process that transforms mixed plastic waste into cost-competitive chemical building blocks.
Plus: DOE resumes nuclear waste search, SpaceX and xAI merger, new wiper malware hits Polish energy grid, stratospheric internet, criminalizing cloudseeding, and more.
Plus: DOE resumes nuclear waste search, SpaceX and xAI merger, new wiper malware hits Polish energy grid, stratospheric internet, criminalizing cloudseeding, and more.
Mark Groden is the founder and CEO of Skyryse, a company building an operating system to make any aircraft easier and safer to fly.
Plus: Private space station assembles for orbit, liquid-metal motors, synthetic human chromosomes, AI models tested on Dungeons & Dragons, space junk sonic booms, China's defense innovation cities, and more.
Plus: Moon hotel opens reservations, wireless power for aircraft, NASA's lunar nuclear reactor, light-up engineered skin, lip-syncing robots, and more.
Tristan Jennings is founding partner at Solaris Ventures, a niche venture capital firm focused on Series A investments in space and dual-use technologies.
Plus: China to surpass US in biotech innovation, a private space telescope, TSMC starts 2nm chip fab, stem cell engineering for next-gen living drugs, and more.
Jordan Yashari is the founder of Cyrus Ventures, a defense and energy-focused fund investing in hard tech startups building critical infrastructure for national security.
Daniel Dart is the founder and solo GP behind Rock Yard Ventures, a venture fund investing in infrastructure and industrial technologies that serve as the foundation for modern society.
Plus: SpaceX gears up to go public, the US-trained scientist exodus, chatbots getting high, spying vibrators, and more.