T+80: DARPA Launch Challenge
Apr 25, 2018•19 min•Ep. 80
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Episode description
The DARPA Launch Challenge has been officially unveiled, so I spent some time breaking down the competition and speculating about who will enter and what DARPA wants out of it.
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