Diplo Space
Support the work

Fund a unit, not a pitch deck.

We don't sell findings or access. What you can fund is bounded, public-good work with your name on the acknowledgment line, and the same published result everyone else gets.

Founding release

Atlas works. Now help us launch it.

Diplo Space built the working Atlas independently. We are now seeking a small group of founding partners to take the platform through its public institutional release: new instruments, verification, accessibility, immersive development, and public deployment.

Founding partnerships from $50,000. The resulting public work remains independently governed and openly available.

Become a founding partner →Request a private demonstration →How founding partnership works →
Sponsorable units

Five ways in, each with a hard edge.

Bounded scope, bounded budget, in writing. The bands are stated in the open. We’d rather you know before you email.

$50K–$250K+

Fund the Atlas founding release

Take Atlas from private institutional beta to its public release: new instruments, verification, accessibility, immersive development, and public deployment. Founding partnerships begin at $50,000.

Founding partners are listed by legal name and amount. The resulting work stays public, cited, and independently governed.
$25K–$50K

Sponsor an Atlas instrument

One defined instrument, dataset expansion, scenario, or annual orbital edition, from build through verification to open release.

Acknowledged on the instrument as made possible with your support. No say over what it shows.
$15K–$30K

Sponsor an immersive scenario

Underwrite a crisis tabletop for a delegation, committee staff, or an allied training cohort that couldn't otherwise budget it: an anti-satellite (ASAT) strike, a debris cascade, or a GPS-denial event.

The room keeps its after-action record; the scenario joins the open catalog, free for everyone who comes next.
$10K–$25K

Sponsor a plain-language explainer

Underwrite one explainer from sourcing through human verification and open CC-BY publication.

The explainer publishes openly, with sponsorship acknowledged and zero editorial input. That's in writing.
$10K–$25K

Fund a verified-record increment

Extend the open incident record: new verified rows, deeper sourcing, a new sector coded.

The data stays public, dated, and citable. Funders are listed; findings aren't for sale.

Institutions can also bring the Atlas to their people: a season of facilitated exercises, the headset build in your venue, and training so your own facilitators can run it. Scoped in writing, separate from sponsorship. The pilot season →

The independence terms

What sponsors get, and what they don’t.

Sponsors receive

  • The choice of what they fund: which instrument, scenario, or record increment, with the plan and milestones in writing before they commit
  • Public acknowledgment on the funded artifact, the Founding Partners page, and at the launch
  • Demonstrations and pilot participation as the platform is developed, in their room or remotely
  • Partner briefings twice a year: the roadmap, the edition, what is next, and their input on priorities
  • Everything the work produces, published openly and citable, the day everyone else gets it

Sponsors don’t receive

  • Editorial influence over findings, framing, or sources
  • Early or exclusive access to findings
  • Advocacy on their behalf: we take no positions
  • Any say over what publishes

Every agreement says so in writing: sponsorship buys no control over findings, sources, analysis, or what publishes; no exclusive-provider terms; no comparative language anywhere the name appears; every gift disclosed to the dollar by legal name.

Acknowledgments follow the IRS qualified-sponsorship rules. Anything a sponsor receives is valued in writing and kept under two percent of the payment, so a sponsorship stays a sponsorship and never becomes advertising. Founding partnership, in full →

How the lab runs lean

Built on programs made for nonprofits.

A one-person lab keeps almost no overhead partly because programs built for nonprofits and public-interest groups carry the load. We name them because being open about how the work is resourced is part of the trust. Participation isn’t endorsement; it’s support we’re grateful for and glad to disclose.

Cloudflare Project Galileo

Free security for public-interest sites. It keeps this one online and shields it from the kinds of attacks meant to knock vulnerable groups offline.

Learn about the program ↗

Google Ad Grant

Free search advertising for nonprofits (up to $10,000 a month) that we use to reach the diplomats, congressional staff, and officials this work serves.

Learn about the program ↗

Microsoft AccountGuard

Account-security monitoring for organizations at elevated risk of targeted cyberattack.

Learn about the program ↗

TechSoup

Validated-nonprofit access to donated and discounted software and services.

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Goodstack

Handles our nonprofit verification, the check that unlocks these programs.

Learn about the program ↗
Start the conversation

One email. A human answers.

Tell us what you’re trying to fund or fix. If we’re not the right lab for it, we’ll say so and point you somewhere better.

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A line we keep in writing

Diplo Space, Inc. is a nonprofit public-interest research and education lab. It uses open-source and public-domain data to translate space-governance regimes into navigable scenarios and exercises for non-specialist officials. It takes no policy positions, accepts no foreign-government funding, and is not affiliated with the U.S. Department of State, the Department of War, or any government agency.