Idle-cycle compute · deep-space research
Train your mind.
Lend your downtime
to deep space.
Voyager Protocol is a short logic-training session for your breaks — pattern recall, spatial reasoning, working memory. While you play, your machine picks up small compute fragments queued by research partners working on orbital trajectory modeling and deep-space signal analysis. You never see the queue. It runs underneath.
Currently modeling: Voyager 1 heliopause trajectory residuals — a public dataset used here as a reference workload, alongside partner-submitted jobs.
What actually happens when you play
Three things run at once. You only notice one of them.
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You play a short session
Four to six minutes. Sequence recall, mental rotation, working-memory load — the kind of drills used in cognitive-training research, scored and tracked over time so the difficulty actually adapts to you.
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Your device claims a compute fragment
A small, bounded unit of work — a segment of a trajectory fit, a slice of signal denoising, a batch of orbital debris propagation — is pulled from the partner queue and run in a background worker while your session is active.
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Results go back to the queue, not to you
Finished fragments are checksummed, returned to the research partner's aggregator, and cleared from your device. Nothing is stored locally once a task closes out.
The network right now
Live figures, pulled from the aggregator every few seconds.
Who the queue serves
Work is submitted by research groups through the Aphelion consortium — an intake layer that anonymizes and batches jobs before they ever reach a device on the network. No partner sees individual nodes.
Orbital mechanics
Trajectory residual fitting and long-baseline propagation for objects with sparse observation histories.
Signal processing
Denoising and candidate extraction from low-SNR deep-space radio captures, ahead of manual review.
Debris field modeling
Monte Carlo propagation of fragmentation events used in collision-risk assessments.
Run the client
Browser-based. No account needed to try a session.
Compute contribution can be paused or disabled at any time from session settings. Play-only mode is always available.