Idealists may cringe, and not only because the video begins with ‘‘Space, the final frontier,’’ a phrase that already belongs to someone.
will soon sport a commercial module; and the seeds of space tourism seem finally ready to sprout.
Deloitte projects a possible $312-billion-a-year economy in low Earth orbit by 2035.
was launched, in 1998, there were about 600 satellites in orbit, a bit more than 200 of which were circling in low Earth orbit.
In the 1990s, in fact, with the end of the Cold War, the number of satellites in LEO dropped for a bit.
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