Forget the Moon: The Next Billion-Dollar Exit Is Hiding in Earth’s Orbit

For a new breed of space janitor startups, the mess left behind by decades of launches has become a lucrative new frontier in tech.

BY CHRIS STOKEL-WALKER

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Space may be the final frontier, as someone famously once said—but it’s also getting pretty crowded. That will be even more true if Elon Musk’s idea to put data centers in space actually comes to fruition.

Superfast internet, satellite TV technology and your proclivity to need to know where you are at all times all depend on orbital satellites. A space........

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