Space Foundation Highlights 2020 As Banner Year For Space Growth

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SpaceX engineers inside a clean room at its Hawthorne, California facility.
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Private space sector jobs reached a nine-year high in 2020, according to new Space Foundation analysis of U.S. government data, with the industry employing 148,000 people, while space-related mergers, buyouts and equity financings totaled $18.2 billion. In the first quarter of 2021, financing...
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