Posts Tagged ‘space’
InfraLytiks looks to sea and sky as entry to defense contracting
From left, InfraLytiks Chief Operating Officer Tyler Carter, Chief Technology Officer Akash Vidyadharan and President Kevin Prendergast.
Submitted photoWhen Des Moines startup InfraLytiks started the year, the staff was looking at data in the …
Read MoreInfraLytiks joins Catalyst Space Accelerator
Des Moines analytics startup InfraLytiks is participating in the Catalyst Space Accelerator based in Colorado Springs, Colo., one of eight companies to join the accelerator that began Jan. 6. The Air Force Research Lab — …
Read MoreScience Center of Iowa plans Apollo anniversary events through July and August
The Science Center of Iowa has released its schedule of events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, NASA’s first successful mission landing astronauts on the moon. Events include the viewing of …
Read MoreDMACC West Campus provost named chair of 2020 International Space Development Conference
Anthony Paustian, provost of the Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) West Campus and founder of Celebrate! Innovation Live (ciLive) at DMACC, has been named chair of the 2020 International Space Development Conference. ISDC is …
Read MoreinnovationICON: Peggy Whitson
Whitson looks back on record-breaking space career and offers lessons for innovators
Retired astronaut and native Iowan Peggy Whitson makes sure students and adults know the upside — way up, in her case — of …
Read MoreAstronomer captures video of SpaceX’s 60 Starlink satellites in the sky
If there is any place you might half-expect an alien encounter, camping in the South Dakota Badlands might be on the list. Yet, my skeptical partners and I were floored when we looked up from …
Read MoreDocumentary chronicles work of Cedar Rapids company on Apollo mission space communication
The pioneering work done by employees of the former Collins Radio (now Collins Aerospace) of Cedar Rapids in the 1960s will be the subject of a documentary premiering this week, reports Radio Iowa. “Moon Talk” …
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