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Blue Skies Space is to launch its first satellite in partnership with SpaceX, with plans to sell researchers astronomy data 'as a service'.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I've heard of worse ideas

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is some very big red flags. If this is profitable, other companies might try and be science landlords.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Reminds me of the AccuWeather ceo/trump appointee who wanted to sell off all the us gov weather satellites so it could be privatized. Everything must be commodified.