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A year in orbit: ISS deployment tests radiation detectors for future space missions
The predawn darkness on a cool Florida night was shattered by the ignition of nine Merlin engines on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The thrust of the engines shook the ground miles away. From a distance, the rocket appeared to slowly rise above the horizon. For the cargo onboard, the launch was anything but gentle, as the ignition of liquid oxygen generated more than 1.5 million pounds of force. After the rocket had been out of sight for several minutes, the booster dramatically returned to Earth with several sonic booms in a captivating show of engineering designed to make space travel less expensive and more sustainable.
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Xcimer Energy
Conner Galloway received a B.S. and M.Eng. in Nuclear Science and Engineering from MIT in 2009 and was admitted to the MIT Nuclear Engineering Ph.D. program, receiving a fully sponsored NNSA fellowship. He declined both the fellowship and MIT admission to join an ICF research company, Innoven Energy, in 2009. There he served as Head of Target Design and led development of radiation hydrodynamic codes and target designs for the company, receiving several US patents. He left Innoven in 2016 and spent several years building another startup (AliveCor) in the medical technology / AI space. In 2020, he left AliveCor and began assembling a team and developing the laser fusion approach of Xcimer Energy, which he co-founded in January 2022. Conner currently serves as the CEO and CSO of Xcimer Energy. Since founding, Xcimer has raised over $165M in series-A funding and received a $9M award from DOE’s fusion Milestone program - the second largest award of the program.
