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Rocket-powered sleds poised to launch space planes into reality

TechSpot

Radian Aerospace is developing Radian One, a fully reusable space plane designed to transport up to five astronauts into space as many as 100 times. Leading the effort is Livingston Holder, former NASA program manager for the ill-fated X-33, Read Entire Article The company raised an impressive $28 million in funding in 2022.

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Boeing shifts its team leaders for space station and Starliner space programs

GeekWire

As a new commercial-centric era dawns for the International Space Station, Boeing is realigning its top managers for the space station program — and for the program that’s working to send Starliner capsules there and back. Vollmer previously served as chief engineer on the space station program.

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Boeing’s Starliner craft docks with space station after dealing with balky thrusters

GeekWire

(NASA via YouTube) Boeing’s Starliner capsule and its two-person NASA crew arrived at the International Space Station today after mission managers coped with some post-launch glitches involving the spacecraft’s propulsion system. billion in cost overruns due to technical setbacks in the Starliner program.

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DARPA and NASA pick Lockheed Martin to demonstrate DRACO nuclear rocket

GeekWire

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 “This demonstration will be a crucial step in meeting our Moon to Mars objectives for crew transportation into deep space.”

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Need a security road map? Ditch the ad hoc measurement

CIO Business Intelligence

CISOs can only know the performance and maturity of their security program by actively measuring it themselves; after all, to measure is to know. With proactive measurement, CISOs will confirm how well their security program performs, better understand its preparedness against relevant threats, and highlight gaps that require improvement.

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Computer problem forces another delay for first crewed launch of Boeing’s Starliner

GeekWire

Starliner is due to transport Wilmore and Williams on a shakedown cruise to the International Space Station — a trip that’s also meant to deliver supplies and a replacement pump for the station’s urine-recycling system. Resetting the fans fixed the problem. The next opportunity for liftoff will come on Wednesday.

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The 4 October Synergy Forum: Fantastic speakers, even more fantastic attendees

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Attracting more than 500 policy-makers, engineers, architects, program managers and innovators in the federal government and global technology ecosystem, Synergy Forum 2016 is multi-disciplinary, examining the emerging fusion of physical and digital worlds, including: growing connections between cyber and physical domains.

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