About Orbit Economics

Orbit Economics asks one question at every layer of the orbital economy: what does cheaper orbit make possible?

Launch is the bottom layer: what it costs to put a kilogram in orbit, and how fast that is falling. Above it sit the things that price unlocks: private space stations, people who can now buy a seat, factories that make things in orbit and bring them back, and computers that run in orbit instead of on the ground. Each layer gets a tracker with numbers that carry a date and a link to where they came from.

Who writes it

Orbit Economics is written and kept up to date by EJ. The site is independent: no company we track owns, funds or pays it, and none sees a page before it goes up.

How it is paid for

Today it is not: there are no ads, sponsors or affiliate links. If that changes, this page will say how, and any paid placement will be labelled on the page where it appears.

What we won't do

• Present an estimate as a fact. Our own arithmetic is labelled as ours.
• Quote a press report where the company's own statement exists.
• Change an old date. When a target moves, the old target stays with the day it was stated.

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