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Report: Google and SpaceX in talks to put data centers into orbit (techcrunch.com)
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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

NASA did do a lot of it directly so no. There were subcontractors of course, but they were usually responsible for building specific things not the research that generally came from public universities and NASA.

SpaceX is not sharing their technology in the same way NASA did. In fact, they aren't even patenting their tech as to keep it secret.