Multistory urban factories like Ford’s Highland Park facility in Detroit (pictured) were once common.
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Manufacturing dozens of satellites per year in the heart of San Francisco, with its tight urban confines and infamously high rents, might seem like an odd choice. But for Astranis, builder of small geostationary communications satellites, the choice was obvious. “San Francisco is the best city to...
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