Military use of space has been an accomplished fact ever since the first ballistic missile transited the heavens.

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The value of the cloud lies in the fact that tasks that used to require an enormous investment in proprietary hardware can now be accomplished cheaply on commodity hardware that may not even be owned by the organization using them.

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