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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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[–] MRLimcon@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 5 points 2 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.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

I've heard of worse ideas