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The Next Space Race Will Be Won on the Ground
Even today, with space in the news almost daily, most still picture its future in simple if spectacular terms: rockets blasting off at the end of a countdown, colonies on Mars. They’re the set pieces of the space imagination: loud, bright, easy to grasp. The real action is elsewhere, however, in the machinery on which everything depends.

The satellite, the unseen workhorse of the modern world, is evolving faster than ever – faster than perhaps any other area of space. For most of the history of the industry, satellites were designed to endure. They were capital assets, built to sit…[continued]