No, "civilian" was the proper term. It's owned and operated by the
government, which is quite incompatible with "commercial".

Yeah. It ocurred to me the other day that the militarization of space is
a bad idea. One thing is that since space cannot support life that it is
immoral to put weapons there....no territory to claim.

On a more practical level, militarizing space would result in less
security and greater chance of destruction for all participants. So if
avoiding death and mayhem is part of the security goal, space bombs are
not the way to go.

Back in the 1700s, a civil office in the US would hang the flag
vertically. A horizontal flag meant a military base. So that wandering
Brits would not shoot up the Customs houses.