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Impulse Space is betting on a future where launch is cheap

Enlarge / Impulse Space seeks to provide last-mile service for spacecraft launched into orbit. (credit: Impulse Space) Impulse Space announced Tuesday that it has raised $20 million in seed funding, led by the venture capital firm Founders Fund. The in-space propulsion company, started by noted rocket scientist Tom Mueller, plans to use the funding to […]

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Airlines are facing ‘mission of the century’ in shipping COVID vaccines

In cooled warehouses on the fringes of Frankfurt airport, Deutsche Lufthansa AG is preparing its depleted fleet for the gargantuan task of airlifting millions of doses of the vaccines meant to end the global pandemic. Lufthansa, one of the world’s biggest cargo carriers, began planning in April in anticipation of the shots that Pfizer Inc. […]

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