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#News(Startup) [ via IoTForIndiaGroup ]
[ Editors Note: A IoTNext Awardee ]
In December, Reddy received an e-mail which said that Pythom Space, a project he’s been involved with, has been chosen by the US’s DARPA to participate in the Launch Challenge — an ambitious program which aims to cut launch preparations from a few months to days.
That makes Pythom Space, founded by Tina Sjogren and Tom Sjogren, one of the 18 teams that have qualified for the launch challenge with a purse of tens of millions of dollars. The Sjogrens are adventurers who have completed the three poles challenge and see the space as the next frontier.
And Reddy’s contribution? A nanomaterial – more specifically, Carbon nanotubes – that could well be the material of the future as the race to space heats up with many private players including the likes of SpaceX and Blue Origin setting new records. The rockets used by Pythom Space will be among the first in the world to use carbon nanotube-based composites as a structural material.
a Yourstory article on NoPo points out. But what makes NoPo Nanotechnologies special is that they’ve mastered the art of manufacturing carbon nanotubes of a high degree of purity at relatively lower costs. For instance, on of NoPo’s competitors, called Chasm Technologies, sells a gram of single-wall nanotubes at about 1.28 lakh. NoPo claims it sells the nanotubes for a tenth of the price.
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