The Earth Cup is a solar sail race open to all people of all nations. Engaged in the spirit of collaboration and friendly competition, it is a race towards peaceful innovation between societies and committing striving for resilience and regeneration in this time of great promise and peril. The Earth Cup is a new journey for us all to ensure a more positive future of life on Earth while reaching toward new horizons.
Our vision is to provide an open competition where nations, space agencies, and private entities design and deploy advanced solar sailcraft in a friendly, rules-based competition to achieve milestones that advance our capabilities in both space and ecological management.
The Earth Cup intends to accelerate humanity’s capacities to master solar sail technology for planetary-scale as well as inter-planetary solutions. These solutions include planetary climate control, solar energy collection and refraction, and deep-space exploration. This competition fuses innovation, resilience, regeneration, collective governance and societal achievements with real-world demonstrations of humanity’s capabilities in space.
Our vision is to provide an open competition where nations, space agencies, and private entities design and deploy advanced solar sailcraft in a friendly, rules-based competition to achieve milestones that advance our capabilities in both space and ecological management.
The Earth Cup intends to accelerate humanity’s capacities to master solar sail technology for planetary-scale as well as inter-planetary solutions. These solutions include planetary climate control, solar energy collection and refraction, and deep-space exploration. This competition fuses innovation, resilience, regeneration, collective governance and societal achievements with real-world demonstrations of humanity’s capabilities in space.
This is placeholder text. One of the key objectives of the Earth Cup is to support and accelerate the goals of the L1 Project. The L1 Project focuses on reaching a healthy equilibrium of solar radiant energy hitting the Earth to remain at temperatures equivalent to those that would be happening if the Earth was not undergoing significant increases in infrared radiant energy as a result of the Greenhouse Gasses that threatens much of life on Earth.
The EarthCup Regatta is being conducted alongside the EarthCup Digital Twin - a virtual simulator to allow participants to engage in various aspects of the solar sail race without physically launching satellites to orbit. This game and accompanying simulation data can help model best practices for solar sail craft to travel within the solar system.
