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Canoo’s Lifestyle Delivery Vehicle 190 (LDV 190) won the Best of the Best in the Commercial Vehicles Category at the Red Dot 2024 Design Awards. [Photo: Canoo]
California EV Company Canoo Relocates Its HQ to North Texas
by David Seeley | Aug 28, 2024
Based out of its facility in Justin, a city north of Fort Worth, Canoo's HQ is within easy EV range of its DFW-based CEO, Tony Aquila. Now, with thousands of EV orders on the books from Walmart and other companies—and test vehicles humming about for the USPS, U.S. Army, NASA, and more—Canoo has some growing to do.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 22, 2024
“The idea is to scale this and be able to support more small businesses, get more companies involved.”
Hayden Blackburn
Chief Operating Officer
TechFW
…on partnering with the Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program, or SATOP, via Fort Worth Report....
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by Quincy Preston and David Seeley |
Mar 1, 2024
Now through April 27, Back to Space is offering a pop-up mixed-reality experience called "The Lunar Light" inside shipping containers at the site of the former Valley View Center. "Space travelers" can go on a critical Moon mission that engages "all five senses" through immersive theater, cutting-edge tech, and interactive storytelling. Here's how the company first launched—and where it could be headed.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 29, 2024
The free "Sun, Moon, and You" event at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas' Fair Park will offer a sky-side seat of an amazing total solar eclipse (fingers crossed for clear skies). Scientists and astronomers will be taking the stage along with space explorer characters from the PBS show "Ready, Jet, Go."
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TWU students demonstrating how their NASA challenge-winning exercise device works. [Photo: TWU]
All-Female TWU Kinesiology Design Team Wins NASA Space Challenge
by Lance Murray | Nov 15, 2023
Called Team Atlas, the TWU team was the only kinesiology department represented at the two-day Texas Space Grant Consortium Design Challenge held outside of Houston. Their solution: An exercise device for long-duration space flights.
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by David Seeley |
Nov 14, 2023
A next-generation technology called "rotating detonation rocket engines" is turning up new possibilities that could advance in-space propulsion to the Moon and beyond. Here's how a team at UT Arlington aims to help the mission.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 31, 2023
NASA's first X-plane could reduce fuel consumption and emissions up to 30% compared to today's domestic fleet of airplanes, Boeing said. The design could be used by planes of different sizes and missions and may benefit from folding wing tips to accommodate existing airport infrastructure.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 24, 2023
Robots, start your engines! Beginning Tuesday through May 4, more than 30,000 students from all 50 states and more than 50 countries are bringing their custom-built robots to the REC Foundation's 16th annual VEX Robotics World Championship at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas.
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Book.io Co-founders Joshua Stone (left) Ben Illian [Photo: Book.io]
Follow the Money: Book.io Aims to Put E-Books on the Blockchain with New Funding, Tech Startup Kalpa Aims to Raise $1M, and More
by Kevin Cummings | Sep 30, 2022
In this week’s North Texas deal flow, you’ll also find news about crowdfunding platform Harvest Return landing $2.5M; Supply’s acquisition by Foundry Brands; Moss Adams acquiring local CPA firm Kurtz & Company P.C.; Tri Global Energy being acquired for $270M by Canada's Enbridge; and more.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Sep 28, 2022
Firehawk Aerospace is developing hybrid rocket engines and 3D-printed solid rocket fuel to provide a safer, more cost-effective approach to launching payloads as it nears the close of a $17 million fundraising effort.
Co-founder and CEO Will Edwards has said his company's rocket engine "will power the next generation missile and defense systems and plans to support both launch and other systems requiring in-space propulsion."
Co-founder and CEO Will Edwards has said his company's rocket engine "will power the next generation missile and defense systems and plans to support both launch and other systems requiring in-space propulsion."
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 19, 2022
A team led by Volkan Ötügen, director of the SMU MicroSensor Laboratory, has developed a velocity-measuring "optical microresonator" that could help spaceships land safely on Mars and other planets. It's only 2 millimeters long—about the width of two sharp pencil points.
"Every gram of a device makes a huge difference in how much fuel I will have to have on a spacecraft and how many other items I can include as payload on that spacecraft," said Ötügen, whose research is funded by NASA.
"Every gram of a device makes a huge difference in how much fuel I will have to have on a spacecraft and how many other items I can include as payload on that spacecraft," said Ötügen, whose research is funded by NASA.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Jul 11, 2022
Plus, Enhabit Home Health Hits the NYSE, Irving Web3 Investor Raising Two New Funds, TPG leads $750M raise in clean energy firm; Coppell-based Neurolens raises $2.7M; Fort Worth's Jet Health raises $1M; Frisco edtech startup Meritize lands funding; Honeywell acquires Fort Worth nitrile glove maker Rhino Health USA; and more North Texas-related deals.
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Toyota Connected ‘Cabin Awareness’ Concept Uses New Tech to Detect Occupants [Diagram: Toyota Connected North America]
Preventing Heatstroke Deaths: Plano-Based Toyota Uses 4D Radar to Detect Passengers Who’ve Been Left Behind
by David Seeley | May 31, 2022
In 2021 alone, 23 kids in the U.S. died of heatstroke after being left in hot cars. Now a team from Plano-based Toyota Connected North America has developed new tech that uses millimeter-wave, high-resolution 4D imaging radar to detect passengers who've been left behind in a vehicle.
When that happens, a long list of alerts from car honks to flashing lights to texts and smart home device messages could lead to the biggest impact of all: saving a child's life.
When that happens, a long list of alerts from car honks to flashing lights to texts and smart home device messages could lead to the biggest impact of all: saving a child's life.
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by David Seeley |
May 11, 2022
The team of Texas Woman’s University kinesiology seniors won the top prize in the Texas Space Grant Consortium Design Challenge Showcase last month at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. They enhanced a device originally designed by their predecessor team last fall—which made history by being the first all-female design team to win the competition.
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by Kevin Cummings |
May 6, 2022
Earlier this week, the Austin-based accelerator and investor announced its plans to launch a Center for Health Innovation at Pegasus Park in Dallas.
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by David Seeley |
May 5, 2022
A team from Dallas' Parish Episcopal School has won first place at the 2022 international NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The challenge involved 91 teams from around the world, including 58 colleges and 33 high schools. The Parish team won first place overall in the high school division, along with two other awards for Project Review and Videography.
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