Strategy for Frontier Tech and the Space Economy

Helping investors, founders, and operators turn emerging signals into clarity, opportunity, and decisive action.

The Space Economy Is at an Inflection Point

What happens now will determine whether the space sector reaches market-driven hypergrowth — or remains stagnant, mission-locked, and government-dependent.

Governments will fund the next generation of space infrastructure. Markets will decide whether it compounds.

This Point-of-View explains how early investment, architecture, and policy choices lock in one path or the other — and how to tell the difference before capital is committed. Read our Point-of-View

Artemis I Space Launch System on the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center
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Latest analysis on Frontier Technologies and the Space Economy
March 25, 2026
The Ignition Choice: Build a Market or Become a Contractor

The second installment of The CounterFlow Market Signal — applying the missions-to-markets lens to NASA's $20 billion cislunar commitment and the strategic choice it forces on every company in the supply chain

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March 17, 2026
What Launch Tells You About Every Other Space Market

The first installment of The CounterFlow Market Signal — a new framework for diagnosing where space segments actually sit on the missions-to-markets spectrum

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February 9, 2026
Axiom Space: Productizing Human Access to Orbit

Why mission-funded space infrastructure succeeds — or quietly fails to become a market

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February 4, 2026
Missions → Markets: The Signal (01)

A Strategic Intelligence Brief for Founders, Investors, and Operators in the Space Economy

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February 4, 2026
Diagnostic: Is This Actually a Market?

A Diagnostic for Founders, Investors, and Operators in Frontier & Dual-Use Technologies

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January 28, 2026
2025: Record Investment in the Space Economy

2025 Saw Record Space Investment: Are We Building Markets or Locking In Mission-Dependence at Scale?

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January 19, 2026
Optionality Dies in the Architecture Phase

Why Dual-Use Is a Design Problem, Not a Customer Mix Problem

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December 22, 2025
Space-Based Data Centers: When Mission Logic Meets Market Formation

Why Structure, not Technology, Will Determine Whether Space-Based Data Centers Become Markets

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December 17, 2025
When Mission Logic Broke: Lessons from the SpaceX Inflection Point

Missions are not markets. Capabilities are not customers. Execution is not demand.

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December 12, 2025
What the K2 Fund Raise Signals About the Move from Missions to Markets

Productization as Precursor

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December 1, 2025
Why Space-Native Markets Matter

Clarifying the path to a resilient, market-driven space economy

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November 26, 2025
Mapping the Space-Native Economy

A visual framework for the markets where end-user demand drives real revenue into the space sector.

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November 22, 2025
Missions vs. Markets: The Space Economy Needs a Better Map

A demand-first framework for understanding where value is actually created — and why the current definitions fall short.

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