Power rarely disappears, but it relocates. One of its most consequential shifts today is unfolding roughly 500 kilometers (300-plus miles) above our heads, in a domain where democratic oversight has yet to catch up. What was once viewed as a distant scientific frontier has quietly become the invisible architecture of modern life. Space is no longer peripheral. It is emerging as one of the most decisive arenas of political authority in the 21st century.
This orbital infrastructure has little to do with the romance of exploration. It underpins the basic functioning of terrestrial societies. Space systems provide the timing signals that stabilize global financial markets, the data that enables environmental monitoring, and the connectivity that sustains governance during crises and conflicts.
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