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Founder-authored research notes drawn from three years of primary source work: NASA shortfalls, JPL flight heritage, and agency roadmaps. Every essay is dated, signed, and traceable to the bibliography.
Currently · 3 essays
Why space missions need a trust boundary, not a smarter model
NASA's own ranked shortfalls describe a missing systems layer, not a missing model. The essay that introduces the category in plain language.
What thirty years of JPL autonomy actually proved
Remote Agent, CASPER, AEGIS, AutoNav, TRN, Ingenuity: what each system solved, what it deliberately did not, and why the strongest were hybrids with a separate mechanism deciding what may execute.
Permits, not promises: what an assurance kernel does
How execution permits work, why the assurance kernel is independent, and what deterministic replay actually buys an accident board. References DO-178C, NPR 7150.2, and ECSS as design targets.
Forthcoming
Approximate order and month. No commitments. A quiet month is preferable to a filler post.
Aug 2026
Operating-domain contracts: how to fly a learned component you cannot fully verify
Sep 2026
The reference mission: why we design against a planetary surface campaign
Oct 2026
Provenance is a safety property
Nov 2026
What the defense solicitations are actually asking for
Dec 2026
Frames and time: the unglamorous foundation
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