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The ground segment is particularly important and politically critical in complex international space missions. Each participating country will request ground facilities be present on its own territory, and even non-spacefaring nations may already have some. Ground facilities generate jobs and local authorities will try to host them.
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Genta, G. (2017). The ground segment. In: Next Stop Mars. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44311-9_10
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