Published White Papers
Interplanetary Commerce develops industry white papers for operators, investors, and policy teams who need a structured view of how orbital logistics will evolve. Each paper includes both an online version and a downloadable PDF.
White Paper #1:
Ports-to-Orbit: Applying Terrestrial Logistics Discipline to the Emerging Space Economy
This foundational paper outlines how ports, gateways, carriers, warehouses, and last-mile delivery concepts from terrestrial freight can be directly applied to Earth orbit as launch costs fall and cadence accelerates. It also introduces the Launch Capacity Index (LCI) as a needed transparency layer for planning, risk, and investment.
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White Paper #2:
Launch Cadence Is Not Capacity: Why the Orbital Economy Is About to Hit a Hidden Ceiling
This paper examines why increasing launch frequency alone is an unreliable measure of orbital readiness. It argues that as rockets scale faster than supporting infrastructure, hidden constraints in testing, integration, and ground operations risk creating a fragile, delivery-poor orbital economy.
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White Paper #3:
Measuring Orbital Readiness: Toward a Launch Capacity Index
As orbital activity scales, traditional metrics struggle to explain whether the system can sustain growth without fragility. This paper defines orbital readiness as a system-level property and lays the conceptual groundwork for measuring true launch capacity beyond cadence, cost, or isolated performance.
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