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NASA awards millions to boost technology innovations created by small businesses

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Those are just two of the projects receiving Phase I grants from the space agency’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs, also known as SBIR and STTR. The grants will go to 300 proposals from 249 small businesses and 39 research institutions across the country. Nonlinear Materials Corp.

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Zeno demonstrates an innovative type of radioisotope heat source for off-grid power

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The work at PNNL involved radioactive and non-radioactive activities, including chemical processing and fuel fabrication, materials handling and heat source characterization. Zeno’s design could generate more power with less bulk, opening the way for a wider range of applications.

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USNC-Tech and Blue Origin win a contract for nuclear thermal propulsion design

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“These design contracts are an important step towards tangible reactor hardware that could one day propel new missions and exciting discoveries,” Jim Reuter, associate administrator for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, said in a news release. Blue Origin has a separate $2.5 Blue Origin has a separate $2.5

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GeekWire news round-up: Pulumi and Muir raise cash; LinkedIn’s new AI tools; ‘Uncommon Thinkers’

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Valve and Picnik vets Hatch new startup idea: Longtime Seattle software developers and entrepreneurs Darrin Massena and Mike Harrington have built a no-code web development platform for creative thinkers who don’t possess programming expertise. Lisi Photo) Ag-tech startup kept digging for the right idea: Richland, Wash.-based

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AWS opens up its Amazon Braket platform as ‘launch pad’ for quantum computing

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IonQ, one of the hardware partners for the Amazon Braket quantum computing platform, uses a specialized type of chip known as a linear ion trap. And when it comes to the hardware, Amazon is partnering with providers that take different approaches to quantum processing. IonQ Photo via AWS).

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DARPA boosts Microsoft’s far-out effort to build topological quantum computer

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Microsoft is one of three companies selected to present design concepts as part of a five-year program known as Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing , or US2QC. In the program’s initial phase, each of the companies will present a design concept describing their plans to create a utility-scale quantum computer.

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Astrobotic’s lunar lander falls into South Pacific after missing out on moon landing

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Today, the space agency said that “all NASA payloads designed to power on have received power and collected data,” and that observations were made relating to the radiation environment and chemical compounds in the vicinity of the lander during its transit through space.

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