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Technology has permitted drastic reduction in satellite mass with impressive improvement in capability in the form of cubesats and smallsats. Such satellites have lowered the cost of getting commercial payloads to orbit. Remote sensing and telecommunications are the bulk of the services provided.
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Young, A. (2015). Reducing the Cost to Low-Earth Orbit for Small Satellites. In: The Twenty-First Century Commercial Space Imperative. SpringerBriefs in Space Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18929-1_5
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