Independent digital publisher · Established 2014
Evidence, made explorable.
We publish deeply researched interactive atlases and visual field guides across science, history, nature and art.
Our publishing premise
CannedRocket combines editorial research, source-aware datasets and native interaction. We do not hide uncertainty behind spectacle, and we do not mistake a large catalogue for an explanation. Each publication is designed around the decisions that make its subject intelligible.
Astronomy / Mission design
Choose among 369 Solar System bodies, build an ordered multi-waypoint route, inspect why it passes or fails, then fly the selected trajectory in controllable 3D.
Art / Material culture
A quiet interactive museum for Japanese woodblock prints, with a daily reviewed work, source-linked discovery, guided looking and a work-specific Printer's Workshop.
Why departure time, transfer family, planetary motion, close approach and uncertainty all shape a route before a spacecraft ever flies it.
The finished sheet hides a collaboration among publisher, designer, carver and printer, plus a careful chain of blocks, registration and pressure.
A truthful map can still distort size, distance or time. The important question is which distortion is declared, controlled and useful.
Editorial method
Records retain available institution, archive, licence and provenance context. A source is evidence, not an endorsement.
Simulations disclose coverage, uncertainty and model boundaries instead of presenting every calculated value as equally certain.
Gestures should expose the structure of the subject: a trajectory, a printing stage, a comparison or a change of scale.
The editorial desk
Orbital mechanics, planetary science and the history of exploration.
Objects, making processes, provenance and close looking.
Field identification, ecology and the evidence held in collections.
Technology, logistics, geography and primary-source reconstruction.