We're hosting our first Space + Defense Happy Hour in DC.
Join space and defense founders, investors, and media on March 24 for an evening of networking and drinks, just down the road from Satellite 2026 and The Hill & Valley Forum.
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"Re-industrializing and rearming Europe is a project that's going to take at least 10 years. We need all the capital we can get flowing into the ecosystem."
“Globally, only about 25 significant reactors have been built using sodium cooling, and most of them weren’t used to generate power; the US hasn’t built one since the 1960s and hasn’t operated one since the 1990s. This is a radical design, and the company could still face many hurdles before getting approval to operate it.”
Nanoscale features of a laser-driven light sail showing germanium pillars and air holes embedded in a poly (methyl methacrylate) matrix, designed to achieve high wavelength selective-reflectivity. Credit: Dimitrov and Harris.
"Despite current limitations, our research could serve as a foundation for the design and fabrication of multi-dielectric photonic crystal sails. It may provide a pathway to experimentally validated, scalable, lightweight devices for laser-driven propulsion, enabling future interplanetary exploration with minimal onboard mass," said Dimitar Dimitrov, an assistant professor at Tuskegee University. (via Phys.org)
Some people see aliens while on DMT. Researchers want to find out what they can teach us. / Earth garden: Field recordings around the world / The space race's forgotten theme park / X says it will suspend creators from revenue-sharing program for unlabeled AI posts of ‘armed conflict’ / The US military is still using Claude — but defense-tech clients are fleeing / We are woefully unprepared for the next 25 years.
