{"id":620487,"date":"2026-09-10T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620487\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:22:09","slug":"the-space-economy-cant-scale-on-bespoke-power-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620487\/","title":{"rendered":"The space economy can\u2019t scale on bespoke power systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a lot of discussion right now about launch costs dropping and access to space expanding. That\u2019s true. But launch costs and access to space are not the constraints that will define the next phase of the industry. It will be power. And the reason is straightforward: Space power systems were never designed for the world we are now entering.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading this article:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Register now to read<br \/>3 free articles this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">You\u2019ll also receive our weekly Editor\u2019s Choice, SpaceNews This Week and Opinions newsletters. Opt-out at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><a href=\"#signin_modal\">Sign in to an existing account<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a lot of discussion right now about launch costs dropping and access to space expanding. That\u2019s true.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,387,12615,153762,82,1935,247],"class_list":["post-620487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-opinion","tag-power","tag-power-beaming","tag-science","tag-sn","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620487","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=620487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}