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Orbit Fab becomes first startup to supply water to ISS, paving the way for satellite refueling
Not even two years into its existence, orbital fuel supply startup Orbit Fab has chalked up a big win – successfully supplying the International Space Station with water, a first for any private company. It’s a big deal because providing water to the ISS involved a multi-day refueling process, done in microgravity, using processes and equipment Orbit Fab developed itself.
The key ingredient here, per ISS U.S. National Laboratory COO Kenneth Shields, which was the contracting agency for Orbit Fab’s refueling test, is that this method of resupply is totally out of spec in terms of how this process was designed to work on the ISS. By creating and successfully demonstrating a system that the ISS designers never conceived, Orbit Fab has shown that both private companies and NASA have the flexibility needed to build business models on existing space infrastructure.
The technology Orbit Fab developed and demonstrated has broader applications than just moving water around in space. Water was used in this example specifically because it’s one of the most inert propellants used in spaceflight thrusters, but the methods could extend to other common propellants, and make it possible to refuel satellites in orbit. Orbit Fab is working towards establish standard for satellite refueling interfaces to be used in orbital hardware, which could go a long way towards making it common practice to develop reusable satellites, instead of sticking with the more or less disposable hardware model used today.
Startups like Orbit Fab are the key to unlocking true commercialization of space, by identifying points in the value chain where innovation or improvement can lead to cost or resource efficiencies and ensure that space business is actually also viable business, in terms of profit potential.
nnToday, Facebook is coming together with 27 organizations around the world to start the non-profit Libra Association and…
nPosted by Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, June 18, 2019
A Global Coin
nFacebook got one thing right for sure: today’s money doesn’t work for everyone. Those of us living comfortably in developed nations likely don’t see the hardships that befall migrant workers or the unbanked abroad. Preyed on by greedy payday lenders and high-fee remittance services, targeted by muggers, and left out of traditional financial services, the poor get poorer. Libra has the potential to get more money from working parents back to their families and help people retain credit even if they’re robbed of their physical possessions. That would do more to accomplish Facebook’s mission of making the world feel smaller than all the News Feed Likes combined.
nIf Facebook succeeds and legions of people cash in money for Libra, it and the other founding members of the Libra Association could earn big dividends on the interest. And if suddenly it becomes super quick to buy things through Facebook using Libra, businesses will boost their ad spend there. But if Libra gets hacked or proves unreliable, it could cost lots of people around the world money while souring them on cryptocurrencies. And by offering an open Libra platform, shady developers could build apps that snatch not just people’s personal info like Cambridge Analytica, but their hard-earned digital cash.
nFacebook just tried to reinvent money. Next year, we’ll see if the Libra Association can pull it off. It took me 4000 words to explain Libra, but at least now you can make up your own mind about whether to be scared of Facebook crypto.
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nnConstine graduated from Stanford University in 2009 with a Master's degree in Cybersociology, examining the influence of technology on social interaction. He researched the impact of privacy controls on the socialization of children, meme popularity cycles, and what influences the click through rate of links posted to Twitter.
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nnJosh Constine is an experienced public speaker, and has moderated over 120 on-stage interviews in 15 countries with leaders including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whistleblower Edward Snowden (via on-stage video conference), and U.S. Senator Cory Booker. He is available to moderate panels and fireside chats, deliver keynotes, and judge hackathon and pitch competitions.
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nn [Disclosures: Josh Constine temporarily advised a college friend's social location-sharing startup codenamed 'Signal' that was based in San Francisco before dissolving in 2015. This advising role was cleared with AOL and TechCrunch's editors and has concluded. Constine's fiancu00e9e Andee Gardiner co-founded startup accelerator Founders Embassy. Constine's cousin Darren Lachtman is the founder of influencer advertising startup Niche that was acquired by Twitter, and he's since left and founded teen content studio Brat. Constine does not write about Founders Embassy or Brat. Constine has personal acquaintances stemming from college housing circa 2007 with founders at Skybox Imaging (now Terra Bella), Hustle, Snapchat, and Robinhood, but does not maintain close social ties with them nor does that influence his writing. Constine occasionally does paid speaking engagements at conferences, but only those funded by companies he does not cover. Constine owns a small position in Ethereum and Bitcoin cryptocurrencies, does not day-trade, and discloses his positions directly in articles where appropriate. Constine does not do consulting, angel investing, or public stock trading beyond public stock invesments by his parents' estate that he has no role in managing or advising.] ","cbAvatar":"https://crunchbase-production-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/v1415412437/xje35licfau9iewxnf44.png","twitter":"joshconstine","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/tc/v1/users/1603003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/tc/v1/users"}]}}],"replies":[[{"id":666067,"parent":0,"author":0,"author_name":"c r","author_url":"","date":"2019-06-18T03:10:07","content":{"rendered":"So, why do I care if the vendor has to pay transaction fees to Visa? That doesnu2019t seem like reason enough for me to adopt a new currency.
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n1) Ability to spend now and pay later. Even without interest when paying within a month.
n2) Ability to earn cash back or rewards. The merchants are paying for fees and rewards, but in the US they rarely charge the customer for those fees.
n3) Transactions are not final as they are with cash, debit, and Libra. Customer can challenge fraudulent charges and get transactions reversed.
n4) Credit cards are accepted almost everywhere in the US.
That said, this looks to be the best attempt to create a stable crypto currency so far. This may gain a lot of traction in countries where people donu2019t have access to stable currencies and for people that donu2019t have access to credit.
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nCan’t imagine that FaceBucks will be free from those concerns.
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n"},"link":"https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/18/facebook-libra/#comment-666082","type":"comment","author_avatar_urls":{"24":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6a6594ad086c14c085f66f59ca0fc5e2?s=24&d=identicon&r=g","48":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6a6594ad086c14c085f66f59ca0fc5e2?s=48&d=identicon&r=g","96":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6a6594ad086c14c085f66f59ca0fc5e2?s=96&d=identicon&r=g"},"techcrunch":{"avatar":"https://ct.yimg.com/cy/1768/39361574426_98028a_64sq.jpg","company":"(no company found)","title":"(no title found)","user":"NBRR4URN2JESBPUFJIP2MGAZAG"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/comments/666082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/comments"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"post_type":"post","href":"https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1845350"}]}},{"id":666069,"parent":666067,"author":0,"author_name":"F F","author_url":"","date":"2019-06-18T03:24:35","content":{"rendered":"Hm… how about sending money to oversea? When you travel, you need to do currency exchange, you lose heaps of money by doing that. 7% sounds like a fair figure.
n"},"link":"https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/18/facebook-libra/#comment-666069","type":"comment","author_avatar_urls":{"24":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/89d55d331bc8ec7879531cbba3b45d34?s=24&d=identicon&r=g","48":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/89d55d331bc8ec7879531cbba3b45d34?s=48&d=identicon&r=g","96":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/89d55d331bc8ec7879531cbba3b45d34?s=96&d=identicon&r=g"},"techcrunch":{"avatar":"https://ct.yimg.com/cy/1768/39361574426_98028a_64sq.jpg","company":"(no company found)","title":"(no title found)","user":"S7U2QTVHQRYVXIDR2LILVKDOYQ"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/comments/666069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/comments"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"post_type":"post","href":"https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1845350"}],"in-reply-to":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https://techcrunch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/comments/666067"}]}},{"id":666073,"parent":666067,"author":0,"author_name":"Erik de Vries","author_url":"","date":"2019-06-18T03:56:55","content":{"rendered":"Companies like TransferWise are lowering the cost of international transfers and access to money overseas. You donu2019t need crypto currencies to take on the remittance industry. You just need a company with less overhead and more automation to reduce the transaction costs.
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nnConstine has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, The Atlantic, BBC World Magazine, Slate, and more, plus has been featured on television on Good Morning, America, The Today Show, China Central Television, and Fox News. Constine is ranked as the #1 most cited tech journalist on prestigious news aggregator Techmeme.
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nWith H-1Bs in short supply, successful companies frequently poach skilled workers. Everyone knows the tech sector thrives on this free exchange of people and ideas, so if another employer needs your skills, why not start working for them?
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nIn-vitro fertilization (IVF) is now a 40-year-old invention and even the top pharmaceutical companies have spent a pittance on research and development. Subjects like polycystic ovarian syndrome, endometriosis and menopause have taken a backseat to other, more fatal concerns. Fertility is itself oftentimes a mysterious black box as well, though a full 10% of the female population in the United States has difficulty getting or staying pregnant.
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nTo shine a better light on the importance of tech’s role in spurring more innovation for women’s fertility, we asked five VCs passionate about the space for their investment strategies, including Sarah Cone (Social Impact Capital), Vanessa Larco (NEA), Anu Duggal (Female Founders Fund), Jess Lee (Sequoia) and Nancy Brown (Oak HC/FT).
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You are building your startup on deforming IKEA desks eating frozen dinners when out of nowhere, a major VC firm reaches out and wants to discuss a potential investment.
nBut then you look up your interlocutor online and find that they have that completely enigmatic title of u201cAssociate.u201d Heck, that email may well have been from me over the years.
nWhat do you do? Do you connect with someone who may well be working at a prominent firm and try to engage? Do you flat out ignore it? Do you equivocate and delay?
nIn short, do VC associates matter to your fundraise?
nFirst, what exactly are associates and what do they do?
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