INSTITUTE MISSIONS
Ensuring the persistence of life
Next-Level Civilisational & Environmental Management. Earth imaging is in its infancy, yet is already beginning to play an important role across most sectors. LFI is to pilot a new form of Synthetic Aperture Radar that enables real 3D cartography at a resolution unmatched by between one and two orders of magnitude. Such a capability could enable comprehensive civilisational management, and could serve to map out other bodies within the Solar System.
Real-Time Access to Space Infrastructure. Imagine if your smartphone had internet access only for a few minutes daily. That's the reality for most satellites—accessible only when passing over ground station antennas. LFI aims to eliminate this barrier by establishing a network of data-relay satellites, a formerly economically unfeasible solution, now possible with advances in laser over radio communications. This development will significantly enhance the influence and growth of the space industry, not only in LEO but deeper into the solar system.
Preserving Knowledge. To date, civilisations have a half-life averaging at 220 years. Technology has advanced in waves with the rise and fall of civilisations, not in a persistent march of progress. LFI's Archive Mission seeks to curb existential risk by archiving human explicit and tacit knowledge in a resilient Earth-orbiting repository, to support and accelerate the resurgence of technological intelligence. Immediate applications of this endeavour extend to long-life space infrastructure, education, data storage resilience, and self-healing systems.
Catalysing Technological Intelligence Elsewhere. Given the enormity of the observable universe and the ubiquity of planets around stars, the scarcity of technological intelligence stands out. LFI's Seed Mission is to proactively seed distant star systems; directed panspermia through self-guided interstellar probes laden with complex life. Eliminating the bottleneck of billions of years of evolutionary development accelerates the advent of technological civilisations. Such an endeavour will play a fundamental role in safeguarding the future of life.