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• Methadone, Amphetamine Caused Man's Death In Greenbelt Police Custody: Medical Examiner (dailyvoice.com) — State investigators have ruled that a July 1 in-custody death involving Greenbelt police was caused by methadone and amphetamine, not by officers' restraint, and declined to charge Officer Tyler Fahey. The report details the crash off the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, officers' efforts to keep the man breathing while awaiting EMS, and the medical examiner's conclusion that the death was accidental.
• NASA Awards Omitron $23.5 Million Contract For Orbital Safety Analysis Services (pulse2.com) — NASA has awarded Omitron a $23.5 million, five-year contract that will place orbital safety analysts at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, supporting collision-risk screening for all uncrewed NASA spacecraft and some human spaceflight work. The deal means specialized space-traffic jobs in nearby Beltsville and at Goddard, tying Greenbelt more closely to national efforts to manage an increasingly crowded orbit.
• NASA's Roman telescope just opened its planet-hunting eye (sciencedaily.com) — NASA engineers at Goddard in Greenbelt are helping commission the Roman Space Telescope's ultra-precise guidance system, which just proved it can hold a target steady for hours. Their work, including early tests of the planet-hunting coronagraph, is a key step toward future discoveries of distant worlds and detailed images of nearby stars.
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