The growing influence of "Big Tech" over cyberspace drew scrutiny and increased oversight from national governments. The G20 countries began closing tax loopholes [ 1 ] and the European Union began asserting legal guidelines over domains such as data privacy , copyright , and hate speech , the latter of which helped fuel a debate over tech censorship and free speech online, particularly deplatforming.
Throughout the decade, the United States government increasingly scrutinized the tech industry, from attempted copyright regulations to threatening antitrust probes. Spaceflight became increasingly privatized, including crewed spaceflight.
SpaceX captures a significant share of the commercial launch market with Falcon 9. Several other companies started working on partially reusable rockets while SpaceX started development of a fully reusable rocket, Starship.
Towards the end of the decade around companies were developing rockets for the small satellite market, [ 58 ] some have made test flights and Rocketlab 's Electron made multiple commercial flights. SpaceX and Boeing developed commercial crewed spacecraft for orbital flights SpaceX Dragon 2 , Starliner , Dragon 2 made its first crewed flights in Blue Origin develops the crewed New Shepard for suborbital flights.
Virgin Galactic develops a spacecraft for suborbital flights and performs first crewed flights. NASA Dawn probe was the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies, [ 60 ] the first spacecraft to visit either Vesta or Ceres, and the first to orbit a dwarf planet, [ 61 ] arriving at Ceres in March , a few months before New Horizons flew by Pluto in July Contents move to sidebar hide.
