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Two Indicators: The economics of innovation

Planet Money

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The Cost of Space Launches

SpaceX has big contracts to launch supplies to the International Space Station and even astronauts too. Darin Quilty: SpaceX is dominating a lot of different parts of the business of launching things into space. But from what Quilty can tell, it probably isn't making money. He says right now, no one in the satellite business really needs a Starship. And so this is all kind of in service of traveling to bars.

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