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A Plan B for space? On the risks of concentrating national space power in private hands

  • Written by Svetla Ben-Itzhak, Assistant Professor of Space and International Relations, Johns Hopkins University
imageCommercial providers like SpaceX contract with NASA to fulfill the agency's rocket launch needs. Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP

Private companies are no longer peripheral participants in U.S. space activities. They provide key services, including launching and deploying satellites, transporting cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station, and...

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