Research
Technical publications.
All technical claims in our materials are reproducible. The trajectory notebook runs end-to-end in Jupyter and regenerates every figure. We publish because we believe transparency builds trust.
Technical White Paper v1.1
April 2026
Closed-form orbital mechanics, CW-equation derivation, error-budget analysis, 10,000-trial Monte Carlo validation, economic model, competitive landscape, and development roadmap to TRL 6. Covers the co-orbital LEO case and the cis-lunar research horizon.
System Architecture & Subsystem Design v1.0
April 2026
Full subsystem design-out for Hub, Container, and Catcher. Mass, power, and cost envelopes. Candidate COTS parts. Build-vs-buy split. Interface control summary. Companion to the white paper — the white paper answers "does the physics work," this document answers "what do we actually build."
Investor One-Pager
April 2026
Single-page summary of the problem, solution, physics validation, competitive landscape, and the $50K pre-seed ask. Designed for angel investors and pre-seed funds.
Monte Carlo Trajectory Notebook
April 2026
Reproducible Jupyter notebook implementing the CW propagation and 10,000-trial Monte Carlo simulation. Python 3.9+, numpy, matplotlib. Runs end-to-end in under five minutes on a laptop. Kernel → Restart & Run All.
Pre-Seed Financial Model
April 2026
24-month operating plan, unit economics at cadence, and the cost model backing the $2K–5K/kg target. Maintained in intermodal-space-preseed-model.xlsx.
Reproducibility commitment
Every numerical claim in the white paper (§5 and §6) is reproducible in under five minutes on a laptop, without any proprietary tools, accounts, or internet access beyond pip install numpy matplotlib jupyter.
Any result that contradicts the published notebook is either a bug in our model or a real effect we have missed. Either one is worth an email to contact@intermodal.space.