HBO's 'Wild Wild Space' provides an inside look at the private space race (review)

A flaring rocket ascends from its oceanside launchpad.

If you’re not in, you're out, as they say in the shark tank of the entrepreneurial world.

The old saying applies to the burgeoning new space economy, in which private enterprises are jockeying for position to stake their claim in the final frontier, deploying cubesats and microsatellites that will eventually serve a multitude of useful applications.