China’s success in shooting down one of its own satellites last January has given new energy to engineering efforts in the United States to develop and launch more — and cheaper — satellites.

Significantly, the new approach to satellites is getting a boost not just from giant aerospace corporations but from small, entrepreneurial engineering companies. Entrepreneurs have also been behind other recent efforts to move ahead in space, including the Ansari X Prize, the $10 million competition that put a pilot in space without government financing in 2004.

The efforts of the entrepreneurs are also seen as crucial to keeping the United States at the forefront of space technology as Russia, Europe and increasingly China become more technically adept.
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