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ek slash special offer. Welcome to tech news briefing it, January 26th. I'm Alex Osala for the Wall Street Journal.

Coming up on today's show, using rockets to blast satellites into space is something we've been able to do for decades. But moving cargo around in space,

that's a whole new frontier. W.S.J. reporter Micahmaidenburg tells us about the companies

creating vehicles to do this and how soon they could go into action.

And then, charter communications may be one of the biggest telecom companies in the U.S.

But it's gotten much more of the funding from the Federal Affordable Connectivity Program than its competitors.

Now, regulators are looking into Charter's use of the program.

We'll find out what this means for Charter and for the future of the program, from

W.S.J. Tech Policy reporter Ryan Tracy.

But first, it can take years to assemble a complex satellite,

but once it's in space, there's not a lot people can do if something goes wrong.

That could soon change with the deployment of orbital transfer vehicles,

spacecraft designed to move stuff around within space,

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