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Academy track 05

Energy, industry & maintenance

Explore power islands, machine tools, spares, recycling, ISRU, metrology, electronics, and century-scale repair.

People and modest robots sort materials, machine parts, calibrate electronics, and remanufacture a worn pump.
Conceptual fieldEnergy, industry & maintenanceCircular arrows are editorial composition, not a process specification.

Editorial boundary: This public alpha is generated from version-controlled source without third-party application or build packages. It is not the reviewed 1.0 corpus: 60 Academy lessons are substantive editorial drafts, 0 remain foundation outlines, and independent domain review remains open.

Core question

How much of an industrial civilization must travel with the habitat?

Track lessons

  1. Applied · 32 minutes · substantive-editorial-draft

    Power islands and black start

    Design isolated generation trains, storage, heat rejection, fault boundaries, and recovery sequences that can restart life-critical loads without help from Earth.

    Substantive, cited editorial draft; independent domain review remains required.

  2. Foundation · 32 minutes · substantive-editorial-draft

    Maintenance as metabolism

    Replace immortal-component thinking with a renewal loop that senses wear, diagnoses faults, restores function, verifies safety, recovers material, and teaches the next maintainers.

    Substantive, cited editorial draft; independent domain review remains required.

  3. Foundation · 34 minutes · substantive-editorial-draft

    Manufacturing is a stack, not a printer

    Trace a trustworthy part from requirements and feedstock through machine tools, joining, heat treatment, metrology, inspection, qualification, installation, and renewal of the factory itself.

    Substantive, cited editorial draft; independent domain review remains required.

  4. Applied · 34 minutes · substantive-editorial-draft

    From resource to trustworthy feedstock

    Bound every ISRU claim across prospecting, excavation, beneficiation, extraction, purification, storage, waste, power, and qualification before calling local material usable.

    Substantive, cited editorial draft; independent domain review remains required.

  5. Technical · 36 minutes · substantive-editorial-draft

    The semiconductor bottleneck

    Treat computing, sensors, power electronics, packaging, radiation assurance, high-purity materials, process tools, and metrology as a supply ecosystem—not a stockpile of chips.

    Substantive, cited editorial draft; independent domain review remains required.

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  • The track is organized around the question: How much of an industrial civilization must travel with the habitat?
  • The track overview summarizes linked lessons and systems; it does not create a new evidence grade or independent-review state.

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Last editorial review
2026-07-26
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