Wednesday, August 06, 2008 Discovery Channel Films Scale Model Maglev Train
For their upcoming series on the future of technology, "Next World", the Discovery Channel visited LaunchPoint to document and film Applied Levitation's scale model maglev train. The series premieres Wednesday, August 6,...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 LaunchPoint Awarded $490K for Gen 3 PediaFlow PVAD
Additional funds reflect growing confidence in design and performance outcomes
Friday, June 27, 2008 LaunchPoint Partner, WorldHeart, Obtains $30M
PediaFlow consortium member, WorldHeart Corporation, has entered into a $30M recapitalization agreement with investors. The funds, to be raised through the issuance of 300,000,000 shares of common stock, are in addition to...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 LaunchPoint President Elected AIMBE Fellow
Brad Paden recognized for contributions toward magnetically levitated rotary blood pumps for adult and pediatric heart failure patients.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006 Huge 'launch ring' to fling satellites into orbit
An enormous ring of superconducting magnets similar to a particle accelerator could fling satellites into space, or perhaps weapons around the world, suggest the findings of a new study funded by the US air force.
Proponents of...