NASA agrees to work with SpaceX on orbital refueling technology

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From Are Technica:

"On Tuesday afternoon, NASA announced 19 new partnerships with 10 US companies to help bring more cutting-edge technologies closer to production use in spaceflight. There were a lot of useful engineering ideas here, such as precision landing systems and robotic plant farms, but perhaps the most intriguing one involved the rocket company SpaceX and two of NASA's field centers—the Glenn Research Center in Ohio and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07 ... echnology/

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If you have a good satellite doing <whatever> and it's just running out of propellant for station-keeping, this could be a viable business. Obviously, the vehicle would have to be designed to be refueled but if NASA were to pay the development costs, space businesses could see a direct benefit.