From request to review
Define the bounded proposal
For register a deep-space survey mission, record the requester, location, scope and responsible receiving office. The receipt identifies the clock and competent jurisdiction.
Gate: Location and competence are recorded
Owner: Science & Discovery CommissionReview methods and raw evidence
Assess mission route; reconcile it with autonomy and communications and rescue and continuity limits. A missing document has an explicit alternative-evidence route rather than silent rejection.
Gate: Evidence is complete or an alternative is agreed
Owner: Science & Discovery CommissionObtain independent specialist findings
Ask Cometary & Oort Missions Authority for the finding within its own powers. The consultation records the specific unresolved question, evidence version and requested response.
Gate: A specialist finding is recorded
Owner: Cometary & Oort Missions AuthorityResolve protection and future burdens
Null results and uncertainty belong in the public scientific record Publish or privately communicate the resolution, including dissent and consent limits.
Gate: The stated safeguard is resolved
Owner: Emergency Rescue & Continuity AgencyIssue a conditional research decision
A mission-service compact with honest operational limits. The decision also names the accountable official role, effective event, conditions, review office and follow-up duties.
Gate: Reasons, conditions and review route are available
Owner: Science & Discovery CommissionMonitor stop conditions and review
Preserve the source record, decision reasons and conditions for register a deep-space survey mission. A service complaint routes to the Ombudsman; a contested legal restriction routes to the Union Court.
Gate: Follow-up owner and record custody are named
Owner: Union Ombudsman
Exceptions and alternate routes
Required evidence is unavailable
Record the missing item and propose a witness, existing register reference or independently verified substitute. The completeness review remains open.
Interplanetary communication is interrupted
Record local receipt time and the delegated action available. Preserve a mirrored log for later reconciliation; do not invent a remote approval.
An adverse finding affects the requester
Provide the finding, allow a response, disclose the review route and preserve essential service continuity where applicable.
Institutional interfaces
Comet missions, proposed distant reservoirs and itinerant work crews. Oort Cloud administration is a speculative future mission zone.
Transit vessels, gateway stations and civil services between regional jurisdictions; route jurisdiction never replaces a passenger home jurisdiction.
Maintains common rules for safe movement of people and goods throughout the system.
Coordinates life-saving rescue and continuity when pressure, power, transport or civic systems fail.
Start the record
Prepare a requestThe assessment behind the stage diagram
The mission review separates observation, transport, biological access and any resource recovery. Crew welfare and archive responsibility have named receiving owners.
Method, communications plan and successor custody show how the activity remains reviewable beyond its sponsor's current programme. Uncertainty is recorded explicitly.
Possible decisions and what follows
A bounded mission register, staged authorisation, required revisions or reasoned refusal.
Target, instrument and sponsorship changes are appended. Autonomous activity retains declared stop conditions and later review.
Duties after the finding
Keep the scope accurate
Tell the receiving office about a material change in location, activity, operator, record custodian or requested result. The original receipt remains in the history.
Respect source custody
Provide purpose-specific references and authorised representations. Personal, clinical, commercial and protected scientific records have different access scopes.
Respond to a qualified finding
Read the conditions and the institution that owns them. A request for further evidence identifies the specific unresolved issue and the route for an alternative.
Preserve the follow-up
Target, instrument and sponsorship changes are appended. Autonomous activity retains declared stop conditions and later review.
Disagreement, assistance and evidence alternatives
A completeness query names the unresolved evidence and the alternative the receiving office can assess. An administrative complaint concerns service handling; a legal appeal concerns a finding and its competent remedy. A public petition asks a representative institution to examine a wider issue.