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Space Is Becoming Infrastructure
Launch costs have collapsed, orbit is crowded and the economy above the atmosphere is starting to look like the economy below it. A field guide.
Frontier Desk · Edited by Jesse Marcel · · 6 min read
For most of the space age, going to orbit was an event. It is becoming a service.
What changed
Reusable rockets. The idea is old, but the economics only closed in the past decade, when landing and reflying boosters became routine. The consequence is a step change in the cost of mass to orbit, and a corresponding change in what is worth sending there.
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