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// CANDIDATE WORLD — EXOWORLD

Kestrel b (candidate)

RESEARCH

The long search.

An illustrative habitable-zone exoworld candidate — high on habitability, effectively unreachable. A target for the survey, not the build.

WSI 32Extrasolar — illustrativeLight-years

Schematic — not to scale

// REACH
Orbit
Cislunar
Mars
Outer system
Exoworlds
// OVERVIEW

Kestrel b stands in for the class the survey exists to find: a temperate, habitable-zone world around another star, scoring high on habitability and near-zero on access. It is a science destination, not a construction site.

Deep Space's exoworld work is identification — transit, radial-velocity, and direct-imaging survey from deep-space observatories — extending the catalog past the solar system.

// SUITABILITY INDEXCONFIRM
HABITABILITY71RESOURCE50ACCESS3DEV COST4
// CHARACTERIZATION
Type
Habitable-zone candidate
Detection
Transit + radial velocity
Distance
Light-years (illustrative)
Atmosphere
Survey target (TBC)
Water
Liquid-water potential
Access
No transit architecture
// READ
Science

A temperate, potentially watery world — the survey's reason for being.

Method

Found by transit and radial velocity, confirmed by direct imaging.

Reality

Unreachable with any near-term architecture — identification only.

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CONCEPTLONG

Far Watch

Deep-space observatory for exoplanet survey.

CONCEPTRESEARCH

Long Baseline

Distributed long-baseline imaging probe array.

Catalog and plan in the Orbital Foundry.

Every candidate world, scored and sequenced in one console.

Open the Orbital Foundry