Project Persephone

It doesn't mean everybody can go to space - that's will probably always be too expensive for most people. It should mean that everybody can take part in space development because participation has been made cheap enough and easy enough. Project Persephone's strategy is based on seeing several sustained trends

(1) in satellite networking, which is increasingly addressing mobile and remote clients;

(2) in the frontiers of bioscience where it meets problems of measurement and control;

(3) and in internet-based innovation for democratic governance. The founding assumptions are as follows. (1) To be truly for "the rest of us", we need to enable mass telepresence in orbital ecosystems, both for work and play, with much of the work to be for the purpose of continuous renewal of resources aboard the "ecosatellite" (exovivarium), and with much of the play to be invented by the participants themselves. (2) To be truly accessible to all means to be affordable for all. For this, we need to foster the preconditions for projectile space launch (ground-based hypervelocity acceleration) from equatorial mountain slopes, because this should be the cheapest way to get the needed materials to low Earth orbit. (2) To be truly for all who want to join and take part in good faith, governance of the effort should take so-called "agoric" forms -- including direct democracy, open source technology, open markets -- but putting a priority on global equity wherever the issue of global North-South wealth gaps presents itself along the way.