> This type of program has high value per dollar spent. It's an asset, not a waste. The first order, second order, and even third order effects are very large.

> This type of program has high value per dollar spent. It's an asset, not a waste. The first order, second order, and even third order effects are very large. This might also be a program in which the goals of a privatized for-profit company are rather bad in the broader context. If you pay me millions to track and possibly control your satellite in orbit so it doesn't collide... I'll invest in rocket companies to launch more satellites. Even if they are very silly satellites. After all, if they collide, the debris will most likely miss the shareholders, and then you get more satellites to get contracts for. And who cares if some of those invaluable scientific systems with year-long plans get knocked out?