{"id":591617,"date":"2026-08-13T03:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591617\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T03:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:30:15","slug":"the-second-space-age-how-markets-technology-and-power-are-reshaping-the-final-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591617\/","title":{"rendered":"The Second Space Age: How Markets, Technology, and Power Are Reshaping the Final Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the 20th century, space infrastructure was funded and built almost entirely by governments, as space exploration served national prestige, scientific ambition, and military competition.<\/p>\n<p>In recent decades, the economics of reaching space have fundamentally shifted\u2014the cost of sending payloads into orbit has plummeted due to a combination of reusable launch systems, smaller satellites, advances in computing, and modern manufacturing techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Today, private-sector companies now build the infrastructure once exclusive to government programs, and capital markets provide the critical funding for space exploration and commercialization.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, space is poised to become a key pillar of the new industrial economy. And as the economic frontier of space extends, so will competition for orbital access, launch capacity, and space-based services is likely to intensify. In turn, space is expected to become more strategically important to national security, providing another arena for geopolitical competition.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the trajectory and opportunities of the emerging orbital economy in our latest report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Throughout the 20th century, space infrastructure was funded and built almost entirely by governments, as space exploration served&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[44178,61,60,123,82,247,80],"class_list":["post-591617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-geopolitics","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-markets","tag-science","tag-space","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}