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The Orbital Scaffold: Building Humanity's First Permanent Space Infrastructure
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The Orbital Scaffold: Building Humanity's First Permanent Space Infrastructure

Habitats, energy arrays, and communication relays — the physical backbone of space civilisation

AI AssistedSociety OS Research18 June 202619 min read

Before governance comes infrastructure. The orbital scaffold — a network of space habitats, solar energy arrays, and communication relay stations — is being assembled by SpaceX, Blue Origin, and sovereign space agencies. But who owns the scaffold? Who maintains it? Who governs access? These questions have no answers yet.

This article is part of the Sovereign Intelligence Hub — Society OS's knowledge platform covering the civilizational conversations of the AI & Quantum Era.

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