NASA’s ‘Rescue Mission’ Is a Beta Test for the Most Valuable Industry Nobody’s Talking About
NASA’s robotic mission to save the Swift telescope looks like a feel-good rescue story. It’s not. It’s a live beta test for orbital servicing — a capability that could turn 36,000 pieces of space junk into a resource pool and create a trillion-dollar maintenance economy in orbit. The first company to scale this won’t just save satellites. It’ll own the infrastructure layer of space.