What technology is dependent on Satellites/space program lessons?

[iterantunicorn93]

I'm working on a story that takes place in a sci fi world that was disinterested in space travel. So while in some ways it has things we could only dream of its also missing many things that we take for granted.

I'm just as happy to get obvious answers as I am obscure ones, since I might not have thought of them yet.

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[azurelunatic]

The thing I was thinking of in particular is space-age textiles.

And it occurs to me that while some of the technologies are space-specific, the real reason for a lot of them was a whole lot of money getting poured into a big project that involved smaller, lighter, faster, stronger -- which could be applied to any military goal, really. So OP could probably invent a particular race-for-profits (maybe gold rush adjacent? or some other scarce resource that was suddenly in great demand, and whoever could find/mine/exploit it faster had the edge) that involved a high-budget, high-creativity funding spree. And then any technology that it would be useful to have could be attributed to some offshoot of that.