NASA’s Begging the Commercial Space Industry to Save the Doomed Hubble Telescope
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NASA leaning on commercial partners to rescue Hubble is another data point that core scientific infrastructure is now contingent on private launch and servicing capacity. If you depend on space-based data or comms, treat commercial provider health and policy alignment as part of your operational risk model.
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