# GShips offline review-notes worksheet Status: blank notes companion; not a decision bundle Packet: `systems:propulsion` Packet SHA-256: `764145eea596feb5adfdffadc752032c623958db3dd424bc0177440e55d51200` Release: `public-alpha-2026-07-26-research-visuals-r14` Source commit: `3eb036fce3d711336c8c605625895e8a2e799ab0` This readable worksheet is for local notes only. It cannot satisfy the closed decision-bundle schema and is not input to the validator. Use the fingerprinted JSON template for any future structured decision. This worksheet appoints nobody and records no completed review. Do not put identity documents, private contact data, medical or accessibility records, confidential conflict evidence, controlled material, or exploit details here. Keep notes offline until a separately authorized private handoff exists. ## Reviewer declaration Opaque public reviewer ID: Public label: Controlled scope codes: Qualification basis: Independence status and bounded basis: Conflict public summary: Compensation status and public summary: AI assistance and human-verification statement: Publication consent selections: ## 1. Propulsion & trajectory - Record: `system:propulsion` - Record SHA-256: `e22dde5ef50a3495a6760d8676ff6860722a1144edc5341c854aef8cb31203f0` - Public record: /systems/propulsion - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (mission-physics, propulsion-energy) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 2. Flight-proven propulsion can send uncrewed spacecraft onto interstellar escape trajectories, but no demonstrated system closes acceleration, cruise survival, and destination deceleration for a crewed multigenerational vehicle. Fusion, antimatter, and externally beamed systems remain distinct concept families with unverified system-level assumptions. - Record: `claim:claim-02-01` - Record SHA-256: `ccd609c0f0d2ab3c0a3ad5dd7b12c5fd0f04d79963f065f1bee1246493d0103f` - Public record: /claims/claim-02-01 - Minimum independent approvals: 2 - Required scope groups: domain-method (dual-use-risk, mission-physics, nuclear-safety, propulsion-energy); rights-public-interest (affected-public-rights) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 3. At demonstrated performance, chemical and electric systems support Solar System missions. No reviewed worldship mass, delta-v, duration, and arrival case in this foundation corpus closes with demonstrated systems. - Record: `claim:claim-02-02` - Record SHA-256: `d5a179d82d2454ef89bdd5af132504b75d89c57278b5572abd02b3ea17764251` - Public record: /claims/claim-02-02 - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (affected-public-rights, mission-physics, propulsion-energy) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 4. Fusion ignition experiments, solar-sail flights, and laboratory radiation-pressure measurements are relevant precedents, not demonstrations of interstellar propulsion. - Record: `claim:claim-02-03` - Record SHA-256: `0238cc4ace481d695f4aad93f59a096e19406ad1bb1f1e7b3539dc381e3f403a` - Public record: /claims/claim-02-03 - Minimum independent approvals: 2 - Required scope groups: domain-method (dual-use-risk, mission-physics, nuclear-safety, propulsion-energy); rights-public-interest (affected-public-rights) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 5. Starshot proposes gram-scale laser-driven flyby probes and lists unresolved beam, sail, power, pointing, communications, and interstellar-medium challenges; it is not evidence for transporting a habitat. - Record: `claim:claim-02-04` - Record SHA-256: `68e556be0874ee83a80a1e8ac55605b5489d76c193cf8b0b11da0fcb10840de7` - Public record: /claims/claim-02-04 - Minimum independent approvals: 2 - Required scope groups: domain-method (dual-use-risk, mission-physics, propulsion-energy); rights-public-interest (affected-public-rights) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 6. Representative-scale fusion burn, power conversion, exhaust handling, and vehicle integration have not been demonstrated. - Record: `claim:claim-02-05` - Record SHA-256: `f3ec010c7cff04a6828a97ee0093f210818d600c9d179b4e5368f3f7c432a69a` - Public record: /claims/claim-02-05 - Minimum independent approvals: 2 - Required scope groups: domain-method (dual-use-risk, mission-physics, nuclear-safety, propulsion-energy, radiation-health-physics); rights-public-interest (affected-public-rights) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 7. A rendezvous architecture must remove velocity relative to the destination. Carried propellant, external beams, stellar-photon assists, interaction with the interstellar medium, and predeployed infrastructure are separate proposed approaches; a flyby does not satisfy this requirement. - Record: `claim:claim-02-06` - Record SHA-256: `0d7db36d7adf15c4253b2e029e962c9338061c9934c15b089ef6fc3bf63677b4` - Public record: /claims/claim-02-06 - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (affected-public-rights, mission-physics, propulsion-energy) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 8. High-speed interstellar-medium gas and dust, beam governance, energy cost, and drive maintainability remain architecture-limiting. - Record: `claim:claim-02-07` - Record SHA-256: `e2a5d85caeeb1d1e09bb15a550b24867ec46aed9bef4c8d87ba891bba4b1b1a1` - Public record: /claims/claim-02-07 - Minimum independent approvals: 2 - Required scope groups: domain-method (dual-use-risk, governance-law-rights, mission-physics, propulsion-energy); rights-public-interest (affected-public-rights) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 9. Representative high-power nuclear-electric vehicles could improve deep-space science and Solar System logistics if integrated reactor, conversion, distribution, thruster, shielding, heat-rejection, and lifetime requirements close. - Record: `claim:claim-02-08` - Record SHA-256: `323972aa1278673c3a6d7e1172307b1fb4eb0aebb8e946fbdfdfbcd47b520da3` - Public record: /claims/claim-02-08 - Minimum independent approvals: 2 - Required scope groups: domain-method (dual-use-risk, mission-physics, nuclear-safety, propulsion-energy); rights-public-interest (affected-public-rights) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 10. Beamed-energy control, advanced materials, and plasma research have nearer applications in power, manufacturing, and communications. - Record: `claim:claim-02-09` - Record SHA-256: `65b09518b1888fbbbd75f2472d2e7a9461267073e5201c14002fb1e54072bbd7` - Public record: /claims/claim-02-09 - Minimum independent approvals: 2 - Required scope groups: domain-method (dual-use-risk, mission-physics, propulsion-energy); rights-public-interest (affected-public-rights) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 11. No propulsion claim advances beyond concept status without a complete mass, energy, acceleration, braking, thermal, shielding, and failure analysis. - Record: `claim:claim-02-10` - Record SHA-256: `6d4e5880585a9af1bfe19e58db101991ca6f4deaca047024631eff396afd6b85` - Public record: /claims/claim-02-10 - Minimum independent approvals: 2 - Required scope groups: domain-method (dual-use-risk, mission-physics, propulsion-energy); rights-public-interest (affected-public-rights) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 12. Deceleration of high-velocity interstellar photon sails into bound orbits at Alpha Centauri - Record: `claim-source:src-mp-heller-photograv` - Record SHA-256: `5305f48795aadc412b09724c8e7373ad15201e9b8e0a1bbd99edbd9c4b09f383` - Public record: https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/835/2/L32 - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 13. The Interaction of Relativistic Spacecrafts with the Interstellar Medium - Record: `claim-source:src-mp-hoang-ism` - Record SHA-256: `246c03a26bf9141a4e636e84121374c0dc4d55b43ea2f90acc240fa954e35f0b` - Public record: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa5da6 - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 14. Evaluation of the Hazard of Dust Impacts on Interstellar Spacecraft - Record: `claim-source:src-mp-london-dust` - Record SHA-256: `46804722794ea03133478ea64cdf806db527aedfd424e0ccefc5ca64b28dd9de` - Public record: https://www.osti.gov/pages/biblio/1525731 - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 15. Ideal Rocket Equation - Record: `claim-source:src-mp-nasa-rocket-equation` - Record SHA-256: `07edb85bf2537d2968012f2d94818b7208e30e55c5f4278ed6860462a5da047a` - Public record: https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/beginners-guide-to-aeronautics/ideal-rocket-equation/ - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 16. Small Spacecraft Thermal Control - Record: `claim-source:src-mp-nasa-thermal` - Record SHA-256: `7a8659671693753ce207112d78647e13c0d16ca614f88384ce45d0fbae82b9fd` - Public record: https://www.nasa.gov/smallsat-institute/sst-soa/thermal-control/ - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 17. The Breakthrough Starshot System Model - Record: `claim-source:src-mp-parkin-starshot` - Record SHA-256: `d799e8be3524c09b2f9805be31bcb434f2b6dfa58dc4adb2594f6daf1ef7ce29` - Public record: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2018.08.035 - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 18. Combining Magnetic and Electric Sails for Interstellar Deceleration - Record: `claim-source:src-mp-perakis-sails` - Record SHA-256: `938f052c2fd394cb434875f433f86a561cd342e973cf557900f8a0b01b7b4589` - Public record: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2016.07.005 - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 19. Breakthrough Starshot Photon Engine Request for Proposals - Record: `claim-source:src-mp-starshot-rfp` - Record SHA-256: `90af274067e89ba079dd18948ca3c37bff82041b107563ba0e248e6fee250e01` - Public record: https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/i/docs/rfp_photon_engine_final.pdf - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 20. Voyager: Interstellar Messengers - Record: `claim-source:src-mp-voyager` - Record SHA-256: `53b1784a1491523dbf92260429314124413890e3d1c09e62d3a2a6b435e3e421` - Public record: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/ - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 21. Materials challenges for the Starshot lightsail - Record: `claim-source:src-pn-atwater-lightsail` - Record SHA-256: `62a83008d29f7a78104af2e508c1f77ff9bfb74c9c3e3b6ae2e7ae8d71f463f7` - Public record: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-018-0075-8 - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 22. IKAROS Overview - Record: `claim-source:src-pn-jaxa-ikaros` - Record SHA-256: `92494a8a1f50de2ed6db4cdef132792f975483eacf0fe91b28fe0061c101a3dc` - Public record: https://global.jaxa.jp/countdown/f17/overview/ikaros_e.html - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 23. Deep Space Optical Communications - Record: `claim-source:src-pn-jpl-dsoc` - Record SHA-256: `11624d767d92c18f8e7cce8e742966c6beceea585f0f4cc7b279ec7532e3bd65` - Public record: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/deep-space-optical-communications-dsoc/ - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 24. Achieving Fusion Ignition - Record: `claim-source:src-pn-llnl-fusion-ignition` - Record SHA-256: `a1a1c133a9bb4e0a445fe436192cc57b04ba156ab43c7ff3513f994ad956085a` - Public record: https://lasers.llnl.gov/science/achieving-fusion-ignition - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 25. Sail Along with NASA's Solar Sail Tech Demo in Real-Time Simulation - Record: `claim-source:src-pn-nasa-acs3` - Record SHA-256: `94bc5d06bdeceb92f376e609fecb41424ee9fdd451ce7d86f6587c377747f81c` - Public record: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/sail-along-with-nasas-solar-sail-tech-demo-in-real-time-simulation/ - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 26. Dawn: Technology — Ion Propulsion - Record: `claim-source:src-pn-nasa-dawn-ion` - Record SHA-256: `73f7fb497ea929edd6e548cd0a633996756feb0ce64512bb4843e7d79f15f400` - Public record: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/dawn/technology/ion-propulsion/ - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 27. Small Spacecraft In-Space Propulsion - Record: `claim-source:src-pn-nasa-in-space-propulsion` - Record SHA-256: `1a5958f8c467d4728bc32a1231a9c90c6432b1273881f661fd17241f214c1e4b` - Public record: https://www.nasa.gov/smallsat-institute/sst-soa/in-space_propulsion/ - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 28. Megawatt-Class Nuclear Electric Propulsion Technology Maturation Plan - Record: `claim-source:src-pn-nasa-nep-2026` - Record SHA-256: `707242361dd22a0aad919490555bb953c9854ffaa4e5e966048c4238069c37b3` - Public record: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20260001499 - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 29. Space Nuclear Propulsion - Record: `claim-source:src-pn-nasa-nuclear-propulsion` - Record SHA-256: `64399deeae831650a7d6b9ab5b736d4a3e901ef5934595c5214675dbfd475f0b` - Public record: https://www.nasa.gov/space-technology-mission-directorate/tdm/space-nuclear-propulsion/ - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: ## 30. Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space - Record: `claim-source:src-po-unoosa-outer-space-treaty` - Record SHA-256: `dd54e0de1825019f071884316d659e4fef6187bd4d438128e26becdfda8c7291` - Public record: https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/outerspacetreaty.html - Minimum independent approvals: 1 - Required scope groups: bounded-competence (information-science) Disposition: [ ] approve [ ] revise [ ] contest [ ] reject [ ] recuse Bounded scope: Rationale: Evidence source ID, exact locator, and finding: Proposed correction or recusal reason: What would change this decision: