FICTIONAL PLANNING ARTIFACT. "Apogee Launch Co." is an invented company. Nothing here builds, tests, or flies a rocket. "To space" means a suborbital flight crossing the Kármán line (100 km); orbital flight is out of scope. All figures are planned targets, not measured results.
Apogee Launch Co. — 24-Month Plan to Space

User Guide

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User Guide — Apogee Launch Co. 24-Month Plan

Opening the plan

Open public/index.html in any web browser (double-click it, or drag it into a browser tab). No server, no internet, and no install are required — the entire plan is embedded in the single HTML file.

If the published version is live, you can also open it at https://<owner>.github.io/<repo>/rocket-24-month-plan/.

Reading the page

The page is one scroll, top to bottom:

  1. Header + stats — funding, crew, days, target apogee, phases, plus the

scope/honesty note (what is and isn't claimed).

  1. Phase roadmap — the 10 phases with day ranges, the accountable lead, the

goal, and the hard exit gate for each.

  1. Capital plan — a cumulative-spend chart against the $200M cap, plus the

budget allocation donut.

  1. The crew — the 5 leads and what each owns.
  2. Milestones & gates — every gate from kickoff to flight.
  3. Risk register — the top program risks with owners and mitigations.

Using the day-by-day planner

This is the core of the deliverable — a plan for every one of the 730 days.

  • Pick a month with the M1–M24 pills. The table below jumps to that month.
  • Pick a day by clicking its D### button in the month table, or use

Prev/Next day and ±1 wk in the detail card.

  • The detail card shows, for the selected day: the date, phase, day-of-phase,

spend-to-date, percent of timeline elapsed, the primary objective, the parallel track, that day's rhythm (stand-ups, weekly reviews, monthly board updates), and a callout when the day is a milestone.

  • The month table lists every day in the month with its focus, lead, and

running spend. Milestone days are starred; weekends are de-emphasized.

Regenerating

If you edit the plan model (src/plan.mjs), rebuild the site and re-verify:

node build-site.mjs
node verify.mjs

verify.mjs will fail loudly if the edit breaks consistency (e.g. a phase gap, a budget that no longer sums to $200M, or a milestone outside its phase).