Interplanetary Courier & Transit · est. 2031
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Live network telemetry
Every number below is sampled from the ops mesh at Luna Gateway. Nothing here is marketing — if a gauge misbehaves, three dispatchers get paged.
Publishable schedule
Times are mission elapsed at gate. Payload slots are firm 30 days out; crew berths are firm on wake-up.
| Vessel | Class | Destination | Gate | Δv burn | Transit | Slots | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IPC Aphelion Waltz | Heliophore IX | Cislunar ring | A-7 | 0.42 km/s | 9 h 40 m | 4 berths | boarding |
| IPC Sunday Ledger | Courier | Mars · Phoboz dock | B-2 | 6.10 km/s | 71 d | 2 berths | loaded |
| IPC Long Tallow | Ion barge | Ceres depot | C-1 | 11.4 km/s | 214 d | 11 800 t | cryo top-up |
| IPC Ninth Customer | Heliophore IX | Venus · station 3 | A-4 | 0.66 km/s | 6 d 04 h | 9 berths | spinfuse coupled |
| IPC Pale Invoice | Courier | Jupiter · orbit insertion | D-9 | 14.8 km/s | 411 d | 1 berth | window 04:11:52 |
| IPC Quiet Terms | Ice tug | Enceladus haul | D-2 | 19.2 km/s | 2 y 7 mo | 26 000 t | assembling |
Fleet
We build for the boring part: the ninety-ninth trip has to be as dull as the first.
Aerobrakes at Venus, rides the sun's own well out again. Crews live at 0.38 g for six days and never call it an ordeal.
Fuses hard and pays for it in propellant, because the contract says the cargo arrives before the explanation does.
Nine months of uninterrupted thrust at 0.4 milli-g. Nothing to fix, nobody to wake, invoice on arrival.
Enceladus and the cold belt in, propellant and breathable water out. Every other product on this page depends on these runs.
Propulsion & infrastructure
A ship is a component. The company is the road — and the road is what nobody can copy in a quarter.
Roadmap
One leased tug, one window, one customer who took a chance. The hull is still on display at Luna Gateway, still leaking a little.
First non-chemical drive we owned. Payback in 19 months, which is why the fleet doubled the year after.
Our solver opened a Mars window 11 days wider than the published one. Three competitors adopted it inside a year; we still do not license it out.
The road became a place. Bulk freight stopped being an adventure and started being a schedule.
Pale Invoice, nine crew, 411 days out, 409 days back. Nobody on board calls it an achievement; they call it the run.
Ice tug class enters service. First product we ship that is worth more than the freight rate to move it.
Planned. Funded. The ships are on the slip at Ceres and the insurance is already priced, which for this industry is the same as destiny.
From the manifest
They moved our reactor core across 1.2 AU inside a window we had written off. The penalty clause would have been the whole year.
Woke up at Ceres, cargo was already offloaded and stacked, and the crew were eating. That is the whole review.
Insurance rates on the courier class are the only number in this industry that went down. That tells you everything about how they fly.
Booking
Slots firm 30 days out. Crew berths firm on wake-up. Everything in between is arithmetic we already did.
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