Goals you can hold us to
Anyone can publish a grand vision. Far fewer publish goals specific enough to be checked, because specific goals can be missed in public. These are ours anyway. Each one comes with a way to tell whether we are making progress, and each one is sized for a small team doing real work, not for a press release.
Prove the hard part is tractable
The brutal problem in active debris removal is closing on a tumbling, non-cooperative object without making things worse. We want to show a small team can move that problem forward for real: first in simulation, then on a ground testbed.
Progress signal: a repeatable terminal-phase approach in the RPODU Simulator, then the same logic running hardware-in-the-loop.
Refuse to hoard what we learn
Debris is everyone's problem, so the learning should be everyone's too. We publish our technical work instead of locking it in a vault, so others can check it, use it, and get past it faster than we did.
Progress signal: a growing public research library, with new papers added as the work develops.
Make the invisible impossible to ignore
Most people have never heard the words Kessler Syndrome. We build free tools that let anyone see the debris belt, feel the speeds involved, and understand in thirty seconds why orbit is worth fighting for.
Progress signal: the orbital tracker, speedometer, and Adopt Debris, free and running on real data.
Fund the work honestly
The awareness side of Space Waste is paid for by apparel, not by overselling hardware we have not built. Buy a shirt, fund a tool. That is the entire arrangement, and we like it that way.
Progress signal: apparel revenue flowing into free tools and open research, with zero vaporware promises attached.
Earn trust the boring way
Rendezvous and proximity technology is dual-use and export-controlled. We work with that reality in the open: no false heritage, no invented partnerships, and no claim we cannot back up if someone asks.
Progress signal: every public claim traceable to something real, and an ITAR-aware posture from day one.
Give back on the ground
We work to protect one commons up in orbit, so we help restore another down here. For every shirt we sell, we fund a tree through One Tree Planted, at our cost, not added to your price.
Progress signal: one tree funded for every shirt sold, via One Tree Planted, an independent nonprofit our contribution supports but does not partner with or endorse us.
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