Resource intelligence desk
Build the target book, economics model, route planner, and customer demand map before flying hardware.
Gate: ranked targets with extraction confidence and first customer route hypotheses.
Execution roadmap
The future deserves discipline.
DVE should move like a frontier infrastructure company: prove each operational assumption before scaling the next layer.
Autonomy and extraction testbed
Vacuum thermal extraction, anchoring, vapor capture, metering, and robotic fault recovery on asteroid simulants.
Gate: measured water recovery curve and autonomous recovery from planned failures.Small flight demo
Demonstrate target inspection, anchoring behavior, heating, volatile capture, and storage telemetry in space.
Gate: captured volatile mass and credible yield model update.Depot and customer transfer
Stand up a water or oxygen transfer service for a customer mission before claiming a full asteroid-mining economy.
Gate: customer-compatible transfer and custody telemetry.Resource-fed fuel network
Scale from Earth-launched inventory plus demos into verified off-Earth inventory, depots, tugs, and compute servicing.
Gate: recurring demand and production cost below route-specific Earth lift alternative.Risk ledger
The plan should name what can kill it.
Resource riskHydrated minerals are not automatically accessible water.
Thermal riskExtraction recipes may consume too much energy for early yield.
Storage riskCryogenic boiloff can erase economics if unmanaged.
Market riskDemand timing may arrive later than hardware capability.
Interface riskCustomers need compatible transfer hardware before fuel can be sold.
Capital riskHardware ambition must not outrun evidence or contracts.
Investor-grade next step
Turn the dream into a 90-day proof plan.
Target book, mission architecture, autonomy prototype, customer map, and first technical risk burn-down.
Build the proof plan