LICIACube (bottom right) deployed from NASA's DART spacecraft and observed DART's collision with the asteroid Didymos in September. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben

LOS ANGELES – Italian space company Argotec announced plans Oct. 11 to invests $25 million in a manufacturing facility in Maryland that will employ more than 60 people designing, building, testing and operating 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...