Prime Movers Lab Rundown: XB-1 Completes Second Flight, Tarana Wireless Named Fastest Growing Private Telecom Startup

Boom’s XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft successfully executed its second testflight at the Mojave Air & Space Port in August. Following its historic first flight, XB-1 continues to progress through its flight test program, successfully demonstrating its landing gear and digital stability augmentation systems. Elsewhere in Prime Movers Lab’s portfolio, Inc. Magazine crunched the numbers and named Tarana Wireless the fastest-growing private telecommunications startup. Check out the rest of the highlights from across our portfolio below:

Space.com: Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 prototype aces 2nd test flight (Boom Supersonic)

CNN: The next world’s tallest building could be a 3,000-feet-high battery (Energy Vault)

Inc.: Inc. 5000 2024 Meet the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America (Tarana Wireless)

Fast Company: How Nokia and Axiom are putting 4G on the moon (Axiom Space)

Forbes: Colorado To Copenhagen: Atom Computing’s Vision For Quantum Europe (Atom Computing)

FierceWireless: UScellular boosts fixed wireless capacity with Tarana technology (Tarana Wireless)

Space News: SpaceWERX awards contracts to nine space tech firms for defense projects (E-Space)

Future Farming: Pyka’s Pelican Spray drone makes its U.S. debut (Pyka)

Simple Flying: Boom Supersonic Reinvents The Flight Deck: What’s New For Overture? (Boom Supersonic)

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