WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colorado, issued the following news release on Aug. 3, 2023: Last week, U.S. Senators John Hickenlooper and John Cornyn introduced the Accessing Satellite Capabilities to Enable New Discoveries (ASCEND) Act, bipartisan legislation to codify NASA's Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program and continue access to commercial small-satellite (SmallSat) datasets that prove crucial for Earth science research and applications. "Satellites make  more