The time when the race for the stars was played mainly between superpowers now seems very distant.
The status quo that made space a world reserved only for national states has long been shattered.
And a handful of private companies, driven by the fast-growing telecommunications sector and the emerging low-Earth orbit space travel market, are now waging a veritable economic and technological war.
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The majority of them are based in the United States, or are part of Gafam, these web giants including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc.
who have already carved out the lion's share.
All of them have the main objective of making space accessible, reducing the cost of space travel by focusing on the reuse of aircraft and creating satellite superconstellations to meet the development of the connection needs of populations, maritime transport, road or air or more
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