How space became a business, not just a program
For fifty years space belonged to governments. Then reusable rockets cut launch costs by an order of magnitude, satellites shrank from buses to shoeboxes, and private capital arrived. The result: a global space economy measured in hundreds of billions of dollars, growing faster than most terrestrial tech sectors.
Understanding this shift matters because the jobs follow the money. The companies hiring today aren't space agencies — they're constellation operators, launch providers, data platforms and manufacturers who happen to work in orbit.