The Project effort is currently focused on how to provide realistic computer simulations of the user experience - i.e., virtual exovivaria - for a range of exovivaria designs, while researching how tele-operated robots might be enjoyably used in existing (terrestrial) vivaria. However, a wide range of other research topics are opened up in the process. For example, economists might be interested in what happens when you have labor mobility much higher than the mobility of products and raw materials -- terrestrial analogues of exovivaria could tell us a lot about a future in which higher energy costs make transportation more expensive, and in which almost all manual labor could be telebotically outsourced to lower-wage countries. Research on human factors needs to include the studies of the optimal form of group-experience telepresence. Considering the as-yet-unsolved problems o of motion in VR¹, the best solutions may involve collaborators being telepresent in stationary environments, such as command towers, or slowly-moving environments like the cabins of airships.²

• a source of income for users in developing nations, especially for those in equatorial mountain regions.

A secondary Project Persephone focus is to assess the prospects for building projectile space launch infrastructure in equatorial mountain regions. The studies will focus on

This Project Persephone effort includes surveying the current state of the art in projectile launch, exploring interim commercial uses of the rudiments of such infrastructure, evaluating candidate sites (probably in equatorial mountain regions) for building launch infrastructure, and studying how Project Persephone goals can dovetail with programs for improving the lives of natives in regions around candidate sites.

A secondary Project Persephone focus is to assess the prospects for building projectile space launch infrastructure in equatorial alpine regions. The studies will focus on

• a compelling experience for earthbound users in developed nations, for both education and recreation, and
• a source of income for users in developing nations, especially for those in equatorial alpine regions.

Software technology base TBD:

• Projectile launch site ranking system - a package for ranking possible locations of projectile launch sites in terms of multiple factors with user-specifiable weighting:
  • Altitude at egress
  • Logistical accessibility for launcher construction
  • Downrange environmental sensitivity for sonic booms
  • Downrange social sensitivity for sonic booms, shielding debris fallout
  • Tourism potential of site
  • Opportunities for economic development
  • Risks of local conflict
  • Global arms control problems (e.g., is host nation an MTCR member? On track to become one?)

• Desktop - started 16 Aug 2012

• Electromagnetic Magnetorquer demo
  • Desktop
  • Android
  • iOS

• Integrate Orekit and Spacenet
• Multiverse MMO - modify for articial gravity in rotating habitat, the starting point for virtual exovivaria
• Open Source analysis of satellite imagery with the GRASS GIS.⁴

Software projects

Java:

• Integrate Orekit and Spacenet
• Multiverse MMO - modified for articial gravity in rotating habitat
• Open Source analysis of satellite imagery⁵

Notes

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_sickness | VR sickness ⇑

² https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/spatial-personas-have-turned-my-apple-vision-pro-into-a-telepresence-machine/ ⇑

³ See e.g., Rocchini, D., Metz, M., Frigeri, A., Delucchi, L., Marcantonio, M., Neteler, M. (2011)."Robust rectification of aerial photographs in an Open Source space." Computers & Geosciences. ⇑

⁴ See e.g., Rocchini, D., Metz, M., Frigeri, A., Delucchi, L., Marcantonio, M., Neteler, M. (2011)."Robust rectification of aerial photographs in an Open Source space." Computers & Geosciences. ⇑

⁵ See e.g., Rocchini, D., Metz, M., Frigeri, A., Delucchi, L., Marcantonio, M., Neteler, M. (2011)."Robust rectification of aerial photographs in an Open Source space." Computers & Geosciences. ⇑

• a source of income for users in developing nations, and especially for people in equatorial alpine regions.

A secondary Project Persephone effort is assessing the prospects for building projectile space launch infrastructure in equatorial alpine regions. The studies will focus on

• the physical advantages of various locations
• the opportunities for improving the lot of people native to those areas

Exovivaria - remote control of ecosystems in orbit

Any projectile space launch system is likely to enable lower-cost expansion of exovivaria, if they prove viable and popular. The basic ingredients of vivaria (structural materials, mechanical components, seeds, ova, spores, microbes, soil, water, micronutrients) can be packaged to survive high-acceleration launch and be assembled by telebots. Such a launch style would also enable almost any other use of outer space, directly and indirectly, since most uses depend one way or another on similarly packageable elements.

This Project Persephone effort includes surveying the current state of the art in projectile launch, exploring interim commercial uses of the rudiments of such infrastructure, evaluating candidate sites (probably in equatorial alpine regions) for building launch infrastructure, and studying how Project Persephone goals can dovetail with programs for improving the lives of natives in regions around candidate sites.

The Project effort is currently focused on how to provide realistic computer simulations of the user experience - i.e., virtual exovivaria - for a range of exovivaria designs, while researching how tele-operated robots might be enjoyably used in existing (terrestrial) vivaria. However, a wide range of other research topics are opened up in the process. For example, economists might be interested in what happens when you have labor mobility much higher than the mobility of products and raw materials -- terrestrial analogues of exovivaria could tell us a lot about a future in which higher energy costs make transportation more expensive, and in which almost all manual labor could be telebotically outsourced to lower-wage countries.

Exovivaria - remote-control of ecosystems in orbit

The Project effort is currently focused on how to provide realistic computer simulations of the user experience for a range of exovivaria designs, while researching how tele-operated robots might be enjoyably used in existing (terrestrial) vivaria. However, a wide range of other research topics are opened up in the process. For example, economists might be interested in what happens when you have labor mobility much higher than the mobility of products and raw materials -- terrestrial analogues of exovivaria could tell us a lot about a future in which higher energy costs make transportation more expensive, and in which almost all manual labor could be telebotically outsourced to lower-wage countries.

Cheap space launch - site surveys

A secondary Project Persephone effort is assessing the prospects for building projectile space launch infrastructure in equatorial alpine regions. Any such infrastructure would naturally enable lower-cost expansion of exovivaria, if they prove viable and popular, since the basic ingredients of vivaria (structural materials, mechanical components, seeds, ova, spores, microbes, soil, water, micronutrients) can be packaged to survive high-acceleration launch and be assembled by telebots. Such a launch style would also enable almost any other use of outer space, directly and indirectly, since most uses depend one way or another on similarly packageable elements. This Project Persephone effort includes surveying the current state of the art in projectile launch, exploring interim commercial uses of the rudiments of such infrastructure, evaluating candidate sites (probably in equatorial alpine regions) for building launch infrastructure, and studying how Project Persephone goals can dovetail with programs for improving the lives of natives in regions around candidate sites.

The effort is currently focused on how to provide realistic computer simulations of the user experience for a range of exovivaria designs, while researching how tele-operated robots might be enjoyably used in existing (terrestrial) vivaria. However, a wide range of other research topics are opened up in the process. For example, economists might be interested in what happens when you have labor mobility much higher than the mobility of products and raw materials -- terrestrial analogues of exovivaria could tell us a lot about a future in which higher energy costs make transportation more expensive, and in which almost all manual labor could be telebotically outsourced to lower-wage countries.

The effort is currently focused on how to provide realistic computer simulations of the user experience for a range of exovivaria designs, while researching how tele-operated robots might be enjoyably used in existing (terrestrial) vivaria. However, a wide range of other research topics are opened up in the process. For example, economists might be interested in what happens when you have labor mobility much higher than the mobility of products and raw materials -- terrestrial analogues of exovivaria could tell us a lot about a future in which higher energy costs make transportation more expensive, and in which almost all manual labor could be telebotically to lower-wage countries.

The effort is currently focused on how to provide realistic computer simulations of the user experience for a range of exovivaria designs, while researching how tele-operated robots might be enjoyably used in existing (terrestrial) vivaria. However, a wide range of other research topics are opened up in the process. For example, economists might be interested in what happens when you have labor mobility much higher than the mobility of products and raw materials -- terrestrial analogues of exovivaria could tell us a lot about a future in which higher energy costs make transportation more expensive, and in which almost all manual labor could be outsourced telebotically to lower-wage countries.

Project Persephone's current key effort is assessing the prospects for orbital terraria (exovivaria). User studies will focus on how to make them

First Steps on the Thousand-Mile Journey

Project Persephone's current key effort is assessing the prospects for orbital terraria (exovivaria). User studies will focus on how to make them

• a compelling educational and recreational experience for earthbound users in developed nations, and
• a source of income for users in developing nations.

The effort is currently focused on how to provide realistic computer simulations of the user experience for a range of exovivaria designs, while researching how tele-operated robots might be enjoyably used in existing (terrestrial) vivaria.

A secondary Project Persephone effort is assessing the prospects for building projectile space launch infrastructure in equatorial alpine regions. Any such infrastructure would naturally enable lower-cost expansion of exovivaria, if they prove viable and popular, since the basic ingredients of vivaria (structural materials, mechanical components, seeds, ova, spores, microbes, soil, water, micronutrients) can be packaged to survive high-acceleration launch and be assembled by telebots. Such a launch style would also enable almost any other use of outer space, directly and indirectly, since most uses depend one way or another on similarly packageable elements. This Project Persephone effort includes surveying the current state of the art in projectile launch, exploring interim commercial uses of the rudiments of such infrastructure, evaluating candidate sites (probably in equatorial alpine regions for building launch infrastructure, and studying how Project Persephone goals can dovetail with programs for improving the lives of natives in regions around candidate sites.