NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission.
The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.
NASA hired startup
Katalyst Space Technologies
to boost the Swift Observatory to a higher orbit
where it can continue hunting for some of the universe’s biggest explosions.
A three-armed spacecraft built by Katalyst will chase after Swift once …
U.S.-Iran ceasefire could go up in flames (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/28/us-iran-ceasefire-could-go-up-in-flames
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p20#a260628p20
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The Justice Department Is Now Reformatting Trump Truth Social Posts as Court Filings (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/justice-department-trump-ballroom-filing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p134#a260428p134
@… a flip side to unprecedented disaster:
― the precedent of humans causing disasters, and failing to learn from their human mistakes.
Breaking: DOJ's leaders just filed what amounts to a Truth social post as a legal filing in the ballroom case (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/doj-ballroom-filing-blanche-woodward-mccotter
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p2#a260428p2
Iran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait following US strikes and threatens to halt talks to end the war (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-war-hormuz-strait-june-28-2026-1132d316545db2cddb3928b6e7840f51
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p7#a260628p7
There is a frenzied feeling to the news coming from the White House these days. ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-28-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p44#a260429p44
Economic Fury Targets Illicit Oil Revenue Fueling Iran's Military (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0510
http://www.memeorandum.com/260529/p124#a260529p124
Commission preliminarily finds Meta in breach of Digital Services Act for failing to prevent minors under 13 from using Instagram and Facebook (European Commission)
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_920
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p103#a260429p103