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#1202 Ashlee Vance On Elon Musk, SpaceX, and Startups Launching Rockets
The Pomp Podcast
The Rise and Fall of Consumer Electronics in Space
The idea of taking consumer electronics and being able to shoot them into space. It really was in planet labs. They literally sent they'd like bought a Google Nexus phone or a few of them on a rocket launched them in a space to see if they would work. The now consumer electronics in the lower price points could actually be used for this stuff. And I would argue SpaceX had this huge effect on the cost of rockets and access to space.
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