If earlier space seemed like an unattainable mystery, now it has turned into a arena for competition among leading powers and into a sphere of interest for state institutions and private business. Mastering orbit and deep space is viewed as a source of profit, access to resources, and strategic advantages for years to come. Satellite solutions have even reached places where their presence would have been hard to imagine: from advanced technologies in agriculture and analytics in insurance to Earth observation systems, economic modeling, and high-frequency trading on financial markets—today, all of this relies on satellite data. Emilio Kocсi describes the key stages that, step by step, brought space closer to everyday life, examines costly programs that are also risky, and shows what opportunities further exploration of outer space will unlock—and how it will reshape the economy and the political balance on Earth.