The Freebird Manifesto

For too long, access to the stars has been locked behind governments and billionaires. Space has been treated as a playground for the powerful, rather than a frontier for humanity. The Freebird Project exists to break those barriers and put the power of space exploration back where it belongs — in the hands of the people.

We believe that knowledge should be shared freely, that collaboration should be open, and that design should be transparent. We reject gatekeeping and secrecy. Instead, we choose openness, curiosity, and collective progress.

Our first steps may be small — a balloon launch, a telemetry kit, a shared knowledge base. But each project is a foundation stone. Each experiment builds the infrastructure, skills, and trust that will carry us further. These early missions are not symbolic; they are the scaffolding for a future where community‑built spacecraft orbit the Earth and beyond.

We commit to building modular, open‑source systems that anyone can use, improve, and launch. We will document our work so that a student, a maker, or a dreamer anywhere in the world can pick up where we left off. We will partner with schools, makerspaces, and communities to spread knowledge and opportunity.

This is not about profit or control. It is about freedom. It is about curiosity. It is about ensuring that the next great frontier is not owned by the few, but shared by the many.

Space belongs to everyone. Together, we will make it so.