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22 September 2026 · Africa Flying

Space shipyard, phase one on this browser

The San Marco launch platform, an oil-rig style structure with masts, a crane and a helicopter deck standing in calm sea off the Kenyan coast near Malindi.
The San Marco launch platform off Malindi, Kenya, used for satellite launches in the 1960s and 1970s.Credit: NASA, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain. Source.

A hangar you can design in. Not a vehicle that has flown.

The space shipyard (not part of this public preview) walks a design from blueprint to materials to manufacture to fit. It shows delta-v from the rocket equation, thrust-to-weight, and centre of mass. Your design is saved on your device only; there is no server copy.

Manufacture in design mode is accelerated on purpose. The physics uses standard simplified orbital equations, without detailed orbit propagation. The checks on this page are labels on the design (simplified physics), not a range-safety approval. The arena can drop the last saved stack onto the spaceport pad as a model.

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