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Episode: How space is becoming a trillion-dollar marketplace
Description: The future of space is privatized.
Exploring the solar system is now not just the preserve of government agencies—private companies are finding it’s a profitable place to do business.
There’s a whole industry around supplying equipment to space agencies, and some projects will never make it off Earth. But that’s why private companies are brought in—they can develop new tech without spending money from the public purse.
“You can take much more risk. … This is the reason why having not public fund but private fund, you can push at the limit. So you can allow yourself to ma...