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OCTOBER 4, 2023

Aquagga Photo) It would be fair to expect the destroyer of toxic “forever chemicals” to be a massive, intimidating device. The long-lived chemicals are great at deflecting water, stains and grease — but they escape from products and now contaminate drinking water across the nation and are even detected in breast milk.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

DARPA says an NTR would have a thrust-to-weight ratio 10,000 times greater than electric propulsion systems, and a specific impulse that’s two to five times more efficient than traditional chemical propulsion systems.

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JULY 26, 2023

The DRACO program aims to give the nation leap-ahead propulsion capability,” Tabitha Dodson, DARPA’s program manager for the effort, said today in a news release. “An An NTR achieves high thrust similar to in-space chemical propulsion but is two to three times more efficient.

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APRIL 20, 2023

CEO background: Rick Luebbe was previously the CEO and co-founder of EnerG2 , a University of Washington spinoff that was acquired by German chemical company BASF. CEO background: Nick Fajt spent several years at Microsoft, including as a producer and program manager on HoloLens.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Ukrainian firms like Enamine, Life Chemicals, and OTAVAchemicals provide chemistry services and about 80% of the world’s compounds used for drug screening. Ukrainian delegates to Seattle at a visit to the Space Needle. Still, the country is a destination for clinical trials.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Beth Buck, mission operations program manager for Lockheed Martin, said the experience wasn’t anything like the “seven minutes of terror” that precede a Mars landing. The OSIRIS-REx team took it slow and steady, sending commands that took the spacecraft through a four-hour descent sequence.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

. “Experts disagree on whether a utility-scale quantum computer based on conventional designs is still decades away or could be achieved much sooner,” Joe Altepeter, US2QC program manager in DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office, said in a news release.

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