From the “horizontal frontier” to the “vertical frontier”: american geoeconomics goes into orbit
Space is no longer a scientific adventure; it is the new geoeconomic frontier. With the rise of private champions such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Axiom, the United States is converting the cosmic void into a strategic industrial asset—a “vertical market” where efficiency outpaces bureaucracy. While Brussels reflects, Washington acts to lock in control over orbital infrastructure, ready to rewrite the codes of global trade. Because the question is not whether space will become a market, but who will set its standards and rules of operation.
