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Pretty much everything that has to do with space was first developed by governments for military purposes. Rockets, satellites, communications, imaging, etc. I think your point supports the general thesis that many technologies are developed before they are economically viable.
> Pretty much everything that has to do with space was first developed by governments for military purposes. Rockets, satellites, communications, imaging, etc. No. First works on rockets was conduct by free market, even British Interplanetary Society designed flight to Moon (1938) and Lunar Space Suit (1940), unfortunately these works stay plans. BIS said, this is because too strict British regulations. https://www.b…
Unfortunately, Western governments for understandable reasons fear to accept 3rd world countries to develop such programs, because of non-proliferation of mass destruction weapons. So, when programs eventually moved to 3rd world countries (due to lack of interest in developed countries), Western governments used brute force to cancel them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTRAG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull