A 6 to 18 month research programme to chart how the orbital economy is building out, and where a bootstrapped, software-and-services founder in Delhi can create a lot of value once the launch layer is no longer the bottleneck.
Airbus Defence and Space, 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2020, strategy and operations. You read programmes, bids, cost and industrial logic fluently. The technical layers you would learn from scratch.
SpaceX and Blue Origin are laying the pipes to orbit. Once transport is commoditised the economy on top opens up, and that is the moment someone outside the ITAR wall can enter.
Get the lay of the land, work out how the industry builds out from here, and converge on a venture where the value created is large and the seat is one you can actually take.
A structured course in the space economy, written for a smart beginner. Each lesson is a 25 to 40 minute read with an interactive model, key terms, a short quiz, and flashcards that come back on a spaced schedule. Three to five hours a week for twelve weeks. Facts are current to October 2026 and sourced in the project fact base.
Tap each gauge to see what it rules in and out.
Your unfair advantage is reading the industrial and commercial logic of the sector, not building the technology. Climes adds a second advantage you probably undervalue: you know how to sell data products to large Indian corporates, and you know how disclosure regimes create demand out of nothing.
Bootstrap, software only and a cold network is a very specific shape. It points at businesses where the first product is information, a tool, or a service, and where the buyer is one of many small operators rather than one giant prime.
Inner rings are closest to the physics and the capital. Outer rings are where a software and services founder lives. Red haloes mark where the crowd is heading; green marks where I suspect the unseen seat sits.
Click a phase on the ascent. The lit part of the arc is where we are now.
Set each one as alive, under test, or killed as the briefs come in. Your marks stay in this browser.
Play with the sliders to feel how the shape changes. The presets are illustrative sketches, not researched verdicts.
One layer or one thesis. Same five questions every time. Ends in a verdict you can disagree with, and your disagreement is recorded in the brief.
Updated in the Project after every brief. Built from day one to be published, because the map is the door to the conversations.
From Phase 3, a named list of 40 to 60 operators, buyers, investors and regulators across the surviving theses, with what to ask each one.
A hypothesis that a brief contradicts gets marked killed the same week. Conviction is earned from survivors, not from the starting list.
Your stated thesis. Start where the pipes are being laid, establish the cost curves, and let the rest of the map hang off it.
The layer I suspect the answer sits in. Start at the outer ring and work inward, so every later brief is read through the question of what operators will need to buy.