367 | Ashlee Vance: The Misfits and Geniuses Winning the New Space Race
The Realignment
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The Role of SpaceX in the US
The US government has a huge contract with Planet Labs to sort of gobble up as much of their imagery as they want. But at the same time, if you're Brazil or your Spain or pick your country where you don't have the money or the inclination to send up tons ofyour own satellites, you don't need to anymore. You could just dial in to Planet so you know there's a leveling of the playing field a bit with all of this. I mean it really, whether you like him or you hate him. Elon and SpaceX made commercial space a reality."
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