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Rocket Cargo Anywhere In 15 Minutes. The U.S. Air Force Is In. | Matija Milenovic, Hop Aero (YC S26) (opens the original)
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Matija had 24 hours to get a satellite propulsion system across the world. FedEx couldn't guarantee it. UPS couldn't either. So he got on a plane and delivered it himself. 23 hours, round trip. Jacob, his co-founder, hit the same wall from a different direction. He was a marine during Typhoon Haiyan, tasked with getting life-saving supplies of medicine and food to people fast. Aircraft kept breaking down, parts weren't in stock, pilots were exhausted. The supplies got there late. Different probl
40X Smaller Nuclear in 24 Months? Inside Apollo Atomics’ Abundance Bet | Assil Halimi (YC P26) (opens the original)
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Nuclear power is undergoing a massive renaissance. While everyone is trying to reinvent nuclear from scratch with exotic fuels and unproven coolants, Apollo Atomics proved you only need to fix ONE 120-year-old component to make reactors factory-built and transportable. Case in point: three reactors, each on a truck, each for a different customer segment. The A-10 (10 MWe), the A-50 (50 MWe) and the A-300 (300 MWe). Ready to deploy.Apollo Atomics took the pressurized water reactor, the same techn
Why Pure Software Is Uninvestable: The SpaceX & YC Way to Build Hardware | Jamie Gull DD #12 (opens the original)
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Boeing took weeks to change one number on a drawing. He left and never looked back.Jamie went from a public school in the Colorado mountains to Stanford, then to Scaled Composites at 24, running the booms, tails, and control surfaces on an aircraft that was flying in nine months. Then SpaceX, where the responsible engineer culture meant you owned your part from design through the shop floor, and nobody needed four signatures to spend $300. Now he invests in the hardware companies most VCs still
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