Artist’s illustration of NASA’s GeoCarb mission, which will map concentrations of key carbon gases above the Americas from geostationary orbit. (

NASA continues to face difficulties in sending some of its payloads to orbit as hosted payloads on commercial satellites.

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Debra Werner is a correspondent for SpaceNews based in San Francisco. Debra earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient...