Space.com
• Svetla Ben-Itzhak
Plan B for Space: National‑security risks of concentrating critical space capabilities in private hands
Private companies have moved from peripheral actors to operators of critical U.S. space functions — launching and deploying satellites, transporting cargo and astronauts to the ISS, and flying lunar landers. That concentration of essential capabilities in commercial hands creates national‑security vulnerabilities and complicates contingency planning for government missions.
