Commercial resources will long term lower the cost of sending material to space, including the reuse/refurbishment of hardware for future launches. Micro lowers the required weight, but it also limits the function and science in each satellite. Government is not the answer, commercial needs a business case to produce the satellite and sell a viable service. Space is a scary place, space debris, dust, rocks, comets, solar wind, plasma bursts......a piece of sand, traveling at 30,000MPH can do a lot of damage to a micro-satellite.

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