Space governance you can step inside.
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The neutral immersive translation layer for space governance
The treaties, orbits, and debris fields diplomats argue about — turned into something you can step inside.
Diplo Space is a neutral 501(c)(3) lab. We turn contested space regimes — the rival U.S. and China–Russia rulebooks for the Moon, orbital debris, a GPS-denial crisis — into navigable 3D scenarios and crisis exercises. Diplomats, congressional staff, and allied officials rehearse the decision before it’s real, with every claim tied to a primary source.
Neutral & unclassifiedPrimary sources, cited501(c)(3) · no policy positions
The problem, in plain English
Space runs on rules most people never see — and right now they’re straining in public.
The rules are invisible
Space runs on rules most people never see — who may use which orbit, who answers for a piece of debris, whose signal has right of way, who gets which slice of spectrum. They live in treaties and UN documents.
And they're straining, in public
67 nations have signed the Artemis Accords for the Moon; a China–Russia bloc is writing a competing rulebook for the same ground. Orbits fill with debris, spectrum fights sharpen, and GPS interference is now a daily feature of conflict zones.
Faster than anyone can learn it
The officials who must decide — diplomats, congressional staff, allied civil servants — are asked to act faster than they can understand a domain they can't see. We turn the regime into something they can walk through, and the decision into something they can rehearse.
How it works
See the regime. Rehearse the decision.
One loop: a verified record underneath, a navigable explainer on top, an immersive scenario to rehearse in, and an after-action record you keep. Every piece runs in a plain browser.
Step inside — the scenarios
Step into a scenario →Rehearse an orbital crisis in a navigable 3D scenario
An anti-satellite (ASAT) strike, a debris cascade, a GPS-denial event — walked through in three dimensions and rehearsed as a decision before it becomes a crisis. Fully remotable, so you don't have to fly everyone to one room; you leave with an after-action record.
See the regime — the explainers
See the explainers →A governance split, made navigable
The rival U.S. and China–Russia maps for the Moon; the Outer Space Treaty's stress points; the geography of a fight over who gets which slice of radio spectrum at the UN's telecom body. Each one turns a contested regime into something a non-specialist can see — every claim tied to treaty text or a UN document.
The substrate — the record
Open the record →A verified, dated, citable scenario record
The open record of space-governance incidents and stress points the explainers and scenarios draw on — each entry dated, tied to a primary source, and built to still check out when your memo is read a year from now.
How it renders
How we build it →Commodity 3D, an open browser path for everyone
We build on the same photoreal 3D mapping the big platforms now hand everyone, and spend the real effort on the translation. Every scene runs in a plain browser; a headset is an enhancement, never a gate.
Plainly: the record is what happened, an explainer is what it means, a scenario is the decision rehearsed, and the after-action record is what you change. The problem was never too little information; it’s a domain officials can’t see. Everything here exists to make it navigable.
Space domain awarenessHaleakalā Observatory, Maui — where watching the orbital environment begins.
The neutral scenario record
The record, kept in the open.
Space-governance incidents and the policy moves around them — dated, tied to a primary source you can open, and citable in a memo.
2026-06-09Persistent GNSS interference continues around HormuzIncidentMaritime · EnergySource: Skuld maritime security update, June 9, 2026, citing UKMTO/JMIC
2026-06-04House subcommittee hearing on PNT capabilitiesHearingAllSource: House Energy & Commerce, Subcommittee on Communications & Technology
2026-05-27House FY27 defense mark seeks single DoD PNT overseerPolicyAllSource: House Armed Services Committee; Inside GNSS reporting
2026-05-26Lithuania: Kaliningrad spoofing antennas grew twelvefoldIncidentAviation · Maritime · TelecomSource: RRT (Lithuanian regulator) via Reuters interview; corroborating coverage
Who it’s for
Built for the official who can’t see the domain they decide on.
Four kinds of official keep walking through our door. If one of them is you, you should know where to start in about thirty seconds.
Diplomats & desk officers
You've been handed a space-security portfolio with no engineering background. You need to see the regime and rehearse the decision — not read another report.
See an explainer →Congressional & committee staff
You're drafting language on orbital debris, PNT, or a treaty stress point. You want a neutral, citable, navigable picture you can stand behind.
Open the record →Allied & Global-South civil servants
You're building space literacy for a team or a delegation. You'd rather rehearse an orbital-crisis decision in 3D than sit through a lecture.
Step into a scenario →Funders & institutional partners
You back neutral public goods, and you check the EIN, the board, and the funding firewall first. It's all one click away.
See how we're built →Who builds the work
Built by a workforce the world overlooks.
The lab runs as small, time-boxed volunteer research cohorts — built around a credentialed, mobile, badly underused group: military spouses and Foreign Service family members. We offer the one thing the work usually can’t — a published byline that travels with you.
Why trust a lab you’ve never heard of?
Don’t. Check us instead.
We’re new, and we won’t pretend otherwise. What we can give you on day one: every claim carries its source, the data is open and dated, the boundary is in writing, and the legal facts are one click away. The analysis and the judgment here are a person’s; where AI speeds the legwork, a human still opens every source and signs every claim. How we work is published in full.
Diplo Space, Inc. is a Virginia 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 99-1402470. No findings for sale, no positions taken, no foreign-government money, no funder above half our revenue.
501(c)(3) · VirginiaEIN 99-1402470Founded 2024
Brandon Eickhoff
President & Founder
Brandon has spent 17+ years in geospatial intelligence, satellite navigation and its disruption, and allied space planning. He translates contested space regimes into navigable scenarios, builds the lab's immersive stack on open standards, and runs the verification gate that clears every published claim. Diplo Space exists because the officials deciding on space governance — diplomats, congressional staff, allied civil servants — had no neutral, unclassified, navigable way to see the domain they answer for.
- Translates regimes into navigable 3D scenarios
- Runs the verification gate on every claim
- Serves unpaid
Work with us
See the system.
Then act on it.
Bring a scenario to your team, sponsor an explainer or a record increment — or just email a human and ask a question.