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 CEO 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...
Thursday July 20, 2006 ANSYS® CFX® is the CFD Tool of Choice for LaunchPoint’s Pediatric Maglev VAD
At Goleta-area venture engineering firm LaunchPoint Technologies, simulation and virtual prototyping have become an integral part of the engineering design cycle. With tight project schedules and limited budgets being...
Thursday July 06, 2006 Five industries revolutionized by Maglev
Maglev is finally finding applications in many key industries now that research is catching up to theory.