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.
Current state
- ISS, HERA, CHAPEA, Concordia, Biosphere 2, MELiSSA, Lunar Palace, and habitat laboratories each test different slices.
- Digital twins, fault injection, model-based engineering, hardware-in-the-loop, and human-in-the-loop testing are mature methods.
- Negative results often provide the most useful evidence about hidden couplings and institutional behavior.
Major unknowns
- Short duration, small crew, Earth support, 1 g, and easy rescue limit transfer from present analogs.
- There is no shared benchmark for material closure, autonomous recovery, governance stress, knowledge loss, or multi-domain faults.
- Organizations can distort analog outcomes when branding, schedules, or funding discourage transparent failure reporting.
Failure modes
- Short duration, selected crews, hidden resupply, sponsor pressure, or weak instrumentation makes an analog look more complete than it is.
- Subsystem success is extrapolated to an integrated habitat without shared-boundary, common-cause, or recovery evidence.
Useful precursors
- Cross-site protocols spanning sealed habitats, stations, polar bases, submarines, farms, hospitals, and remote industry.
- Open benchmark scenarios with fault injection, mass and energy balances, preregistration, and publication of negative results.
Decision gate
Every claimed capability must identify its environment, duration, scale, intervention, failure history, evidence boundary, and next harder test.
Claim records
- Worldship capability must climb a transparent proof ladder from components to integrated analogs to autonomous space habitats; no single analog validates the whole mission. (normative · operational · strong; 1 independent reviewer required; current review: pending)
- ISS, HERA, CHAPEA, Concordia, Biosphere 2, MELiSSA, Lunar Palace, and habitat laboratories each test different slices. (observed · operational · strong; 1 independent reviewer required; current review: pending)
- Digital twins, fault injection, model-based engineering, hardware-in-the-loop, and human-in-the-loop testing are mature methods. (demonstrated · operational · strong; 1 independent reviewer required; current review: pending)
- Negative results often provide the most useful evidence about hidden couplings and institutional behavior. (normative · operational · supported; 1 independent reviewer required; current review: pending)
- Short duration, small crew, Earth support, 1 g, and easy rescue limit transfer from present analogs. (observed · operational · strong; 1 independent reviewer required; current review: pending)
- There is no shared benchmark for material closure, autonomous recovery, governance stress, knowledge loss, or multi-domain faults. (observed · early-research · supported; 1 independent reviewer required; current review: pending)
- Organizations can distort analog outcomes when branding, schedules, or funding discourage transparent failure reporting. (modeled · operational · supported; two independent reviewers required for governance; current review: pending-two-person-required)
- Open stress tests improve resilience of buildings, utilities, hospitals, farms, and emergency organizations. (proposed · operational · supported; 1 independent reviewer required; current review: pending)
- Shared datasets and reference scenarios reduce duplicated effort across research programs. (proposed · operational · supported; 1 independent reviewer required; current review: pending)
- Every claimed capability must identify its environment, duration, scale, intervention, failure history, evidence boundary, and next harder test. (normative · operational · strong; 1 independent reviewer required; current review: pending)
Context sources—not claim citations
Foundation system synthesis · Linked claims editorially assessed · Independent system review pending · Suggest a correction
