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Since the October 1957 launch of Sputnik I, there has been only one truly commercial space industry: satellite communications. the market for communications satellites and launch vehicles has been a multi-billion dollar business for many years. Launch vehicle development has been dominated by governmental efforts. In contrast, the development of communications satellites has been primarily commercial. All of the governments of space faring nations have sponsored successful communications satellite technology programs. Not all have been commercially successful.
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Whalen, D.J. (1998). Government and Commercial Space: Communications Satellites. In: Haskell, G., Rycroft, M. (eds) New Space Markets. Space Studies, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5030-9_26
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