Budget Drives Lawmakers To Explore Private Earthsats
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Citing pressures on the federal civil-space budget and advances in private-sector Earth-observation spacecraft, House members from both sides of the aisle are looking for ways to harness commercial spacecraft for weather forecasting and other Earth-observation applications traditionally operated by...
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