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Re:US military's mysterious X-37B space plane zooms toward o... by lallysingh on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @08:28PM (#31914955)
Because they'll invest heavily in technical areas nobody cares about commercially. So their stuff will sometimes be surprisingly advanced.
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Re:US military's mysterious X-37B space plane zooms toward o... by y0ungarmanii on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @09:21AM (#31919711)
Very true, the commercial sector has almost no need for things like advanced optics, radiation hard electronics, RF absorbing materials etc.
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