Why it matters, scientific capability
Space launch capacity
Mass that can be placed in orbit per year: vehicles available times launch cadence.
- Depends on
- 1
- Depended on by
- 1
- Metrics
- 0
Neighbourhood: what depends on it (left), what it depends on (right)
- Candidate
- Hypothesized
- Mechanism supported
- Causally supported
- Established relation
Systems that would feel a shortage
Downstream: what depends on it
Independently survivable human worlds depends on Space launch capacity3 evidenceMechanism supported
Independently survivable human worlds depends on Space launch capacity.
Mechanism
Any settlement beyond Earth is delivered and resupplied by launch; mass to orbit per year bounds what can be built there.
Evidence
- documentNASA, Humans in Spacenasa.govCrewed missions and their launch and resupply dependence.checked 2026-09-07
- sourceNASA (seeded source)checked 2026-09-07
- metricindependently-survivable-human-worlds
- Status
- mechanism_supported
- Reviewer confidence
- 0.85
- Stated strength
- 0.90
- Lag
- not stated
- Version
- curated_seed_v1
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-07
Confidence and strength are curated judgements recorded with the edge, not measured quantities.
Inputs it cannot do without
Upstream: what it depends on
Space launch capacity requires input Launch vehicle2 evidenceEstablished relation
Space launch capacity depends on Launch vehicle.
Mechanism
Every orbital launch flies a licensed launch vehicle; capacity is vehicles available times cadence.
Evidence
- documentFAA, Office of Commercial Space Transportationfaa.govLicensing of launch vehicles and launch operations.checked 2026-09-07
- documentFAA, Commercial space transportation FAQfaa.govchecked 2026-09-07
- Status
- established_identity_or_engineering_relation
- Reviewer confidence
- 0.99
- Stated strength
- 1.00
- Lag
- not stated
- Version
- curated_seed_v1
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-07
Confidence and strength are curated judgements recorded with the edge, not measured quantities.
Measured, from the catalog
Linked metrics
No catalog metric is linked to this entity yet.
Named on the edges that depend on it
Substitutes
No substitute is named for this entity on any stored edge.
Derived from curated edges
Bottleneck centrality
- Score
- 0.90
- Downstream entities
- 1
- Direct dependents
- 1
Sum over every entity downstream (within six hops) of the strongest path weight to it, where each edge weighs its stated strength divided by one plus its named substitutes. A graph statistic over curated edges, not an observation. Computed 2026-09-07 22:42 UTC.
Curated paths this entity is part of
Chains
Names that resolve to this node
Aliases
- launch cadence
- launch capacity
- orbital launch
- space launch
slug space-launch, updated 2026-09-07 22:42 UTC