Our roadmap

Our mission is by no means easy, and we know it will take many years of effort and perseverance. To guide us, we've charted out a roadmap to navigate the long path ahead.

"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."

Jonas Salk

Short-term goals

• Recruit new members to form an active, diverse, and passionate community
• Meet with experts and faculty to gain knowledge and insight
• Set up a strong base of infrastructure to allow the project to scale and grow, including our governance structure, translations on Weblate, funding on OpenCollective, and code hosting on Codeberg
• Sign and ratify the Project Elara Charter and become fully self-governing
• Begin modelling and building our designs to gain experience and demonstrate our technology
• Improving the onboarding process and documentation (particularly the Handbook)

Medium-term goals

• Register as a legal entity under 501(c)(3) to become an officially-recognized nonprofit
• Achieve a state of financial sustainability for the project with smart budgeting, applying for grants, and gaining support from other organizations/universities/labs (in a similar manner as the Nobel Foundation's funding plan) so that our members can work full-time on Project Elara
• Setup national and possibly international collaborations as part of our mission to improve scientific collaboration
• Once ground testing is sufficiently successful, launch a prototype into space

Long-term goals

• Begin large-scale autonomous construction of a space-based power constellation as well as terrestrial (and/or oceanic) receiving stations
• Start distributing electricity, with emphasis on giving priority to underdeveloped regions and regions needing humanitarian assistance (war zones, disaster zones, etc.)
• Gradually increase total power capacity to MW and then GW range, eventually hoping to reach close to (or above) 1 TW