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Boeing has a carbon emissions problem. Startup Charm Industrial is cleaning up.

Climate /

Boeing has signed a deal with startup Charm Industrial to remove 100,000 metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere. Charm collects agricultural and forestry waste and uses heat to turn it into a product it calls “bio-oil,” a messy jumble of hydrocarbons that it injects underground, including into former oil wells. Once sequestered, Charm can […]

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Space Force bets on commercial entrants in $4B satcom contest

Government & Policy /

American warfighters need jam-proof communications, and the Space Force is planning to spend hundreds of millions to ensure they have them. As part of that effort, the service established the Protected Tactical Satcom program to build out secure battlefield communications via satellites. The Space Force has already awarded contracts to defense primes Boeing and Northrop

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Ex-SpaceX engineers land $14M to scale new method for 3D printing metal

Startups /

3D printing objects using metal is a well-established technique, but it tends to be too complex, expensive, or imprecise to match traditional methods at scale. Armed with $14 million from Nvidia and Boeing, Freeform aims to change that, building a new metal additive printing process that they say changes the game — and yes, there’s

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