Space for the rest of us.
Issue 01 — 2027A trimestrial digital magazine about the private, intimate interior of life in space. Cannabis, ambient music, contemplative games, cozy reading nooks by the viewport — and the flawed, fun humans who will actually live up there.
Eight sections. One cocooning read. Swipe through like a magazine, scroll like a book.
Slice-of-life stories from plausible orbital habitats. Bars, gardens, black markets, and morning coffee with a rotating starfield.
The Matagami electromagnetic cannon: a real project to send a kiloton of cargo to orbit daily. Quebec-built, physics-checked.
Growing, cooking, and legalizing it in recirculated-air environments. Edible recipes included.
Plants, moss, and duckweed that belong in any colony. Humans are nature's way of reaching space.
One deep concept per issue, Quanta-style. Mind-blown guaranteed, gatekeeping not included.
Albums for off-time. Slow, patient, atmospheric. Sound for staring out the observation deck.
Relaxing, artistic, narrative. Reviews of games that reward patience and curiosity, not reflexes.
Films that leave you thinking about the universe. Sci-fi, contemplative, positive. Old and new, famous and forgotten.
Orbital space is currently only accessible to astronauts — model members of society. There are no gamblers, rock stars, or stoners up there. No parties, no bars, no lazy Sundays.
With the eventuality of space colonies, all of that will exist. Orbital High lives in the bedroom-soul universe: the reading nook by the viewport, the grow room tended before sleep, the ambient album filling a small cabin. Everyday situations in extraordinary places, for regular people who dream big but also like to sit still.
The magazine is built on a foundation of plausibility. The Matagami space cannon is a costed, Quebec-based engineering project that makes low-cost cargo-to-orbit realistic. Everything in the magazine flows from that premise.
Digital magazine, trimestrial. Built on kos/Godot. Swipeable sections, scrollable text.
2027
Groundwork. The first issue establishes the voice and introduces the spine.
A 20 km electromagnetic accelerator north of Matagami, Quebec. 100-ton cargo pods, 10 launches per day, one kiloton to orbit daily. The project that makes everything else plausible.
An O'Neill-style rotating habitat built with cannon-delivered materials. Coffee in the galley, a shift in the grow-room, ambient music and edibles with friends before sleep.
Random Boolean networks and the origin of life. If life self-organizes from sufficient chemical complexity, seeding a closed ecology on a station is a network problem, not a miracle.
Ólafur Arnalds — Some Kind of Peace. Christian Löffler — Lys. Carbon Based Lifeforms — World of Sleepers.
Kingdom: Two Crowns and Deliver Us The Moon. Cozy strategy and lonely lunar exploration.
Universe (1960), Another Earth (2011), The Legend of Ochi (2025). Contemplative, curious, warm.
Cats in space? Yes please!