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USA. Lamborn: The fight to keep U.S. Space Command in Colorado is not over (Space News)

Sandra Erwin Ever since the Air Force announced in January that U.S. Space Command would be relocated from Colorado to Alabama, Rep. Doug Lamborn has...

Space. Thinking outside the box: Aerospace Corp.’s thin DiskSats (Space News)

Debra Werner The Aerospace Corp., an early adopter of the cubesat standard, is proposing a new shape for small satellites, a thin plate called DiskSat...

Space. Collins Aerospace to provide life support for privately run LEO outpost (Space News)

Jason Rainbow Collins Aerospace said Aug. 23 it had been awarded a $2.6 million contract by an undisclosed customer to provide life support systems for...

Space. Virgin Orbit to go public in SPAC merger (Space News)

Jeff Foust Small launch vehicle developer Virgin Orbit will go public through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in a deal that includes...

Space. Millennium Space in an experiment de-orbited a satellite in eight months (Space News)

Sandra Erwin Boeing subsidiary Millennium Space Systems announced Aug. 23 it successfully demonstrated the use of a deployable tether to de-orbit a satellite after it...

USA. In the new space era, a changing role for the U.S. government (Space News)

Sandra Erwin The pace of technological innovation in the space business has long been dictated by government-funded programs of record. But as the private sector...

Space. Nelson: Blue Origin lawsuit adds further delays to Artemis (Space News)

Jeff Foust At a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center in late July, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson deflected several questions about the future of...

Afghanistan/Europe. Lead Efforts to Protect At-Risk Afghans (HRW)

The European Union, the United Kingdom, and other European countries should lead global efforts to urgently facilitate safe passage from Afghanistan of civilians at risk from the...

Russia. Insufficient Home Services for Older People (HRW)

The Russian government is not providing adequate resources for home-based services for older people, denying some of them the ability to live independent and dignified lives, Human...

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