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GAO steps up criticism of Space Force’s missile-warning satellite procurement (Sandra Erwin, Space News)

Current (left) and planned (right) missile warning architecture. Credit: Government Accountability Office The U.S. Space Force is providing Congress overly optimistic projections about the schedule...

Exo-Space pivots to meet demand for on-orbit processing (Debra Werner, Space News)

FeatherEdge is a image-analysis device that plugs into a satellite or balloon payload to provide onboard image processing. FeatherEdge fills 1/2 of a cubesat....

Court filing outlines Blue Origin’s case against NASA SpaceX lunar lander award (Jeff Foust, Space News)

Blue Origin argues that the failure of SpaceX to include flight readiness reviews for every Starship element launch rendered its proposal deficient and thus...

Rocket Lab to launch Astroscale inspection satellite (Jeff Foust, Space News)

Astroscale's ADRAS-J mission, to launch on a Rocket Lab Electron in 2023, will rendezvous with an inspect an upper stage from a Japanese rocket...

Starliner test flight likely to slip to 2022 (Jeff Foust, Space News)

A second uncrewed test flight of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner, postponed in August because of valve problems, is unlikely to take place before 2022, a...

NASA splits human spaceflight directorate into two organizations (Jeff Foust, Space News)

Jim Free (left) will be the associate administrator leading the new Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, whlie Kathy Lueders runs the Space Operations Mission...

How to Avert a Global Climate Catastrophe (Omar Razzaz, Project-Syndicate)

Current global efforts to raise awareness and nudge and shame policymakers are necessary but not sufficient to prevent an existential climate crisis. Addressing the...

The Developing World’s Hidden Inflation Risks (Rabah Arezki, Jean-Pierre Landau, Project-Syndicate)

A combination of specific inflationary shocks and vulnerabilities could seriously threaten developing economies' stability and prosperity. Although part of the policy response to these...

El Salvador’s Bitcoin Folly (Jeffrey Frankel, Project-Syndicate)

Many aspects of cryptocurrencies are baffling, not least the success of a joke like Dogecoin. But El Salvador’s recent adoption of Bitcoin as legal...

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