Space Vault began with a simple but audacious question: what if the most secure place to hold high-value assets wasn’t in a Swiss vault, a Caribbean jurisdiction, or a blockchain — but in orbit?
The vision is unchanged. As the space economy matures, low Earth orbit will become a viable and uniquely compelling location for securing assets of significant value — financial instruments, digital assets, irreplaceable data, and physical objects whose security requirements exceed what any Earth-based facility can guarantee.
Orbit has properties no terrestrial location can match: no government has jurisdiction, no court can issue a subpoena, no regulator can compel disclosure. For certain assets, that neutrality has enormous and underappreciated value.
A vision without economics is just a dream. So we built this site to track the evidence — what it will actually take for space to become economically serious enough that orbital asset custody makes sense.
That means tracking launch costs. Following in-orbit manufacturing companies like Varda. Mapping the orbital data center race. Analysing Starlink’s financials. Watching the Starship programme. Following the capital flows into space infrastructure.
We’re not a news site. We’re not a hype machine. We’re an analysis hub — trying to identify the specific metrics, milestones, and price points that separate the space economy from the space industry.
The Economics of Space is our editorial platform — data-driven briefings for people who take the economics of space seriously. Each piece ends with the same analytical thread: what this means for the price point where space assets become worth vaulting.
Space Vault is what we’re building toward. The custody infrastructure for a mature orbital economy. We’re early. The data suggests we won’t be early for long.
Questions or partnership enquiries: launch@spacevault.space