Infrastructure 02
The Interplanetary Transport System
Building the infrastructure for civilization beyond Earth.
We are building the infrastructure that makes expansion beyond Earth repeatable.
01 — From one world to a network of worlds
From one world to a network of worlds
- Earth
- Moon
- Phobos
- Mars
- Asteroids
- Mercury
- Solar Orbit
A destination can become infrastructure for the next destination.
02 — The first node / Moon industrial base
The first node / Moon industrial base
1,000–5,000 tonnes
The objective is to build an industrial system that can build more of itself.
03 — Industrial self-expansion
Industrial self-expansion
- Machines
- extract resources
- process materials
- manufacture infrastructure
- build more machines
- expand production
Industrial Replication Ratio
> 1×
04 — Sanctuary 1
Sanctuary 1
- 100 tonnes dry mass
- ~7 days
- 401 million km
- ~2,652 km/s total Δv
1,326 km/s acceleration Δv
1,326 km/s deceleration Δv
These are design targets derived from simplified trajectory assumptions—not demonstrated spacecraft capabilities.
05 — Propulsion challenge
Propulsion challenge
- Sun
- solar infrastructure
- electrical power
- high-power beam
- Sanctuary 1 receiver
- electromagnetic plasma accelerator
- high-velocity exhaust
5,000–10,000 km/s exhaust velocity
510,000–1,020,000 s Isp
~30 t reaction mass
~130 t initial mass
~2–3 TW
This propulsion architecture is a research target. It does not currently exist.
06 — Energy layer
Energy layer
- Solar generation
- Power conversion
- Power-beaming network
- Spacecraft
- Propulsion
Energy generation is separated from transportation.
07 — Power network
Power network
- Node
- Node
- Node
- Node
- Node
08 — Phobos + Mars
Phobos + Mars
- Moon
- Phobos
- Mars
09 — Expanding beyond Mars
Expanding beyond Mars
- Mars
- Asteroids
- Mercury
- Solar Orbit
10 — Mercury
Mercury
11 — Material strategy
Material strategy
Stage 1
Earth
Stage 2
Moon
Stage 3
Asteroids
Stage 4
Mercury
Stage 5
Solar orbit
Progressively expand the resource base without destroying the infrastructure that creates future capacity.
The goal is to create more industrial capacity than we consume.
12 — Solar infrastructure
Solar infrastructure
- More factories
- more solar collectors
- more energy
- more factories
- more infrastructure
13 — Dyson swarm
Dyson swarm
- Off-Earth resources
- autonomous manufacturing
- solar-orbit factories
- solar collectors
- power infrastructure
- increasingly large swarm
Turn the Solar System's available energy into infrastructure for civilization.
14 — Computational layer / Terrestrial Brain
Computational layer / Terrestrial Brain
- Earth
- orbit
- Moon
- Mars
- Solar System
15 — Reality as data. Simulation as the laboratory.
Reality as data. Simulation as the laboratory.
- Observation
- data
- AI
- simulation
- prediction
- experiment
- new observation
The physical universe is our data source.
The simulated universe is our laboratory.
16 — The civilization brain
The civilization brain
- Terrestrial Brain
- orbital compute
- lunar compute
- Martian compute
- distributed Solar-System intelligence
- potentially planetary-scale computational systems
- potentially stellar-scale computation
The exact architecture remains an open research question.
17 — AI + robotics
AI + robotics
Autonomous systems
AI capabilities
It is to create an infrastructure where intelligence can operate throughout the physical environment.
18 — Spatial intelligence
Spatial intelligence
Earth has maps and addresses.
An interplanetary civilization needs a spatial intelligence layer.
19 — Solar drones
Solar drones
Their specific operational use cases remain under development.
20 — The bootstrap
The bootstrap
Earth provides the seed.
The Moon creates the first industrial base.
The industrial base creates more infrastructure.
The infrastructure reaches new resources.
New resources create more energy and manufacturing capacity.
More energy and manufacturing capacity enable more transportation and computation.
The system expands.
21 — The numbers
The numbers
1,000–5,000 t
Initial lunar industrial seed — planning range
100 t
Sanctuary 1 target dry mass
~30–70 t
Potential reaction mass range at 10,000–5,000 km/s exhaust velocity
5,000–10,000 km/s
Electromagnetic propulsion research range
~2–3 TW
Approximate propulsion-power requirement for the high-exhaust-velocity reference case
~7 days
Initial high-speed interplanetary target
401 million km
Reference maximum-distance case
1×+
Industrial self-replication threshold
These numbers describe design targets and planning assumptions, not existing capabilities.
22 — The roadmap
The roadmap
- 01 — EARTH
- 02 — MOON
- 03 — SELF-EXPANDING INDUSTRY
- 04 — SANCTUARY 1
- 05 — PHOBOS + MARS
- 06 — ASTEROIDS + MERCURY
- 07 — SOLAR INFRASTRUCTURE
- 08 — DYSON SWARM
- 09 — COMPUTATIONAL CIVILIZATION
- 10 — THE SIMULATED UNIVERSE
23 — We are not waiting for the future
We are not waiting for the future
Some of the technologies required for this vision already exist.
Some are emerging.
Some require major engineering advances.
Some may require breakthroughs we cannot yet predict.
We want to identify those gaps—and build the path across them.
Infrastructure for civilization beyond Earth.
24 — Join the build
Join the build
Research areas
Propulsion
Energy
Space Manufacturing
Robotics
AI & Simulation
Space Infrastructure
Science
The Solar System is not the destination.
It is the beginning of the infrastructure.
Build the first node.
Build the next machine.
Build the next factory.
Build the next world.
Then build the infrastructure that connects them all.