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ssinff t1_j84ze05 wrote

Reply to comment by platinumgus18 in Blue Origin awarded NASA launch contract for Mars mission (Studying magnetic field) by kuroimakina

They have the benefit of all the knowledge gained from 8 decades of public funding of the space program. Easy to get off the ground when someone else has done most of the work.

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platinumgus18 t1_j85czdf wrote

I presume most of this knowledge won't just be in public domain considering how strategic space is and how several unfriendly countries can use it for other purposes

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ssinff t1_j88lhib wrote

Not necessarily. Historically, a ploy it government funded research originated in academia where "pure" research is available in the public domain. If course research with specific applications may exist behind a classification system, but our knowledge of space travel drives from the years and years of publicly funded research.

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platinumgus18 t1_j8a02kn wrote

Interesting, so this can also be misused by other governments then right

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