Our team has created an app-based marketplace that is focused on one main goal: the connection of interstellar manufacturers and resource-extractors with terrestrial clients. The app, which was developed using Android Studio, is able to calculate the cost of shipping products from its trans-Neptunian location to Earth and display the current products that Starket currently has for sale. However, the app also touches on the second “prong” of our business: tourism. The Starket will allow shoppers to browse locations and prices for trans-Neptunian vacation destinations.

The business model of Starket is key to its success and is what sets it apart from all of its competitors. Interstellar developers and manufacturers’ most prominent concern will almost certainly be the viability of shipping their goods back to Earth, where most of the demand is. Starket uses a decentralized interplanetary warehouse system in order to bulk the shipments to Earth and thereby exponentially reduce cost. Each planet in our dwarf planet network -- which is capable of easy expansion in the future -- is equipped with one or more warehouses which send and receive goods from a primary hub dwarf planet. These low relatively low distance trips will allow for cheaper aggregation of goods on one planet; it is from this hub planet that shipments are sent to one of Neptune’s moons. On the moons the shipments are aggregated and shipped in bulk to Earth during ideal times; this ensures a constant flat fee for the Neptune-Earth trip. Certain of these steps may be omitted entirely if the requested item is already in stock at one of the warehouses along the way. The cost will be superficially reduced in this case, however, the majority of the shipment cost will remain to allow for massive profit; the prediction of high-demand items will be a major part of this success factor.

Now, you may be wondering how we plan on integrating tourism into our business, it is, however, a seamless symbiotic relationship between the two sides of the company. The tourist attractions that are the dwarf planets (the same planets on which warehouses are located) will be furnished with easily accessible goods due to the infrastructure already in place due to our shipment network. With this, Starket is able to produce an extraordinarily comfortable experience with the lowest cost possible.

There are certain obstacles we encountered along with a few assumptions that we needed to make in order to finish our project. For one, we assumed the development of reusable rockets for our fleet; though, the model was extensively iterated in order to find the perfect balance between the lowest number of rockets relative to cost and delivery efficiency. Furthermore, a large obstacle for any operation which hopes to ship from Earth to a trans-Neptunian body is unideal flight windows; when the planets are in opposite places in their orbit, shipping from one to the other could mean massive, possibly untenable flights. It is for this reason that our decentralized warehouse system was chosen, as it is the most effective at dealing with this. Also, many of our costs are estimations for what is assumed to be a reasonable price in the future, though that information could be radically different depending on the course of technological development.

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