Government lab that provided support and funding alongside company internal investment during engine development.
Programs in China, Japan, the UK and the US are each targeting test launches of space-based solar power within five years, Live Science reports. Whether the power can be delivered at a price anyone would pay is a separate question.
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UCSB and Caltech researchers built a CMOS-compatible ring-laser gyroscope on a chip that senses rotation as slow as 37 degrees per hour. It uses milliwatts of optical power and could eventually serve navigation where GPS is unavailable, the report says.
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PsiQuantum has won a conditional Pentagon commitment for a loan of up to $150m to expand its plant in Milpitas, California. PsiQuantum says the money would buy test, assembly and cryogenic equipment for prototypes, The Next Web reported, so it mainly adds capacity to check hardware.
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JQI and Auckland researchers report in Nature a two-laser chip frequency comb that, they say, matches tabletop combs on routine measurement tasks. Portable atomic clocks are the goal, though the reported tests are bench measurements.
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ARL, VMI and West Point tuned iridium chromophores by calculation first, aiming at chemical-agent warning and fuel made on site. What they published is a method, not a device, and not a cycle time.
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Kratos and GE Aerospace's GEK800 is now the F143-ZZ-100, with an EMD contract to become a second propulsion source for JASSM rather than a replacement for the incumbent.
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