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Jeff Bezos wants a low-orbit office park to replace the ISS

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The habitable satellite only has permission to operate until 2024, and while it’s likely that the space station’s funding could be extended until 2028 , NASA plans to decommission the ISS and find a replacement by the end of the decade. After more than two decades in orbit, NASA is preparing to retire the International Space Station.

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Tech Moves: Adriane Brown joins KKR board; AI2 adds HR exec; Ossia and LevelTen hire CFOs; more

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Brown is an advisor for The Black Boardroom Initiative , a new effort from Perkins Coie that launched this month to increase the number of Black leaders on public boards to one in eight by 2028 — up from one in 24 today. Montoya is responsible for Equinix’s global cybersecurity risk program. Emma Lundberg (Photo © Daniel Roos).

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Month-long Mars colony simulation starts today in an isolated crater in Israel

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This leg of the experiment is part of a larger research program that started in 2018 and will run until 2028, with the goal of developing hardware and workflows for future human-robotic surface missions to the Red Planet.

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Fusion fever: A reality check on the multibillion-dollar race to reinvent energy and save the planet

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The Biden administration created a milestone-based funding program to advance fusion power, with Zap recently selected among its eight awardees. The reactor is scheduled to deploy by 2028. Upcoming targets: Commercial power by 2028. “That’s what’s really important,” she continued.

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Blue Origin’s team wins $130M share of NASA funds for commercial space stations

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“We are pleased that NASA supports the development of Orbital Reef, a revolutionary approach to making Earth orbit more accessible to diverse customers and industries,” Brent Sherwood, Blue Origin’s senior vice president of advanced development programs, said today in a news release. “In

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Are quantum computers for real? So far, the uncertainty principle rules the day

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has been selling quantum hardware for more than a decade. “So the size of the program I run is not dictated by the number of qubits. One of the slides shown at the summit suggests that IonQ is targeting 64 algorithmic qubits in 2025, and 1,024 AQ in 2028. So are quantum computers ready for prime time?