A reference to the industrial development of the solar system, published by Daniel M. Sisson under SiliconPlans LLC.
Daniel M. Sisson is an electrical engineer and technical writer with more than 35 years in the industries this reference covers. He began in industrial control and instrumentation, designing systems for GE nuclear reactors, NSA power grids, NASA wind tunnels and US Navy shipyard SCADA networks. He then spent nearly three decades at Microsoft documenting Windows Server, Azure and the AI/ML infrastructure behind hyperscale cloud.
He has published Go-Astronomy since 2004. He holds a BSEE from the University of Missouri and works from the Austin area, a short drive from SpaceX's McGregor engine test site and the Bastrop Starlink factory.
The solar system is treated here as one industrial system: 12 destinations from Earth orbit to the interstellar threshold, the corridors between them, the launch and in-space hardware that flies those corridors, and the companies and national programs building it, Chinese programs included.
Each destination is described the same way, so places can be compared instead of just described: what it costs in Δv to reach, what it can supply, what bounds operations there, and what damages hardware and crews.
Every figure carries a confidence rating (Observed, Building, Projected or Modeled), a date and a source. Ratings move as hardware flies. Method & Confidence explains the scale, and Terminology defines the terms coined along the way.
SolarSystemOS is part of the SiliconPlans network of reference sites, each mapping one layer of the AI-industrial stack: ElectronsX (electrification), SemiconductorX (semiconductors), DatacentersX (data centers), 137ai (AI), AustinIO (the Central Texas build-out) and LuxeAutonomy. The sites are built as a knowledge graph, with entities resolved once and cross-linked, so the reference gains value as it grows.
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