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The End Goal for Low Earth Orbit
The first two stages that are taking place and are happening right now are imaging the earth. You can do basic things like count every single tree on the planet, figure out how much carbon dioxide they're sucking down. The other major bucket here is communications, data, the ability to provide internet in almost every area of the world. SpaceX, OneWeb, Amazon, they're all in the process of building the space internet system where you beam high speed internet from space. Go back to 1996 internet, do a bunch of clever people, think up all kinds of new things to do in space.
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