The mission of Apollo-NG is to be a small and mobile Hackerspace, so that any joining hacker or hacker-to-be can work with others on exciting projects, where we all can share fun, food, resources, knowledge and experience.

It also operates completely self-sustainable, to prove that even today the technology exists, to live and work comfortably in an independent off-grid environment, with absolutely minimal power consumption, without losing considerable comfort. Due to its mobile nature, it is also a very demanding experiment to evaluate “green” technology. All of this is documented in the Lab and the Mission-Log.

The whole hackerspace is going to be powered by renewable solar/wind/water/biomass energy, depending on which energy-source a certain location can offer - thereby proving or disproving with long term data, that we as people can drastically reduce the amount of energy we consume and satisfy our remaining energy needs sustainable, with locally generated small-scale smart-grid power.

It also means, that all electrical systems in use, have to provide their designated function (i.e. lights, computers, navigation, station keeping, music, network, wifi, storage, soldering iron, oscilloscope etc.) but use only a fraction of the power a conventional system would consume.

1. Working for the benefit of all mankind
2. Being aware of free will of every single human being
3. Making and keeping all research & results publicly available as free and open resource
4. Using/Developing/Releasing open-source software only
5. Working towards developing & using only open-resource hardware
6. Practicing full transparency on the way we organize our work and resources we use
7. Using moneyless budget and strongly supporting money deprecation
8. Publishing attributions of all direct supporters and known contributors to the commons we use
9. English language / metric system for all code, documentation and communication within the project

The most basic principle of Apollo-NG is to always try to increase efficiency of any given process or technology. It can be generalized as a level of performance that describes a process which uses the lowest amount of input resources (power, time, labor, etc.) to create the greatest amount of outputs. Simply put: Being efficient means reducing the amount of wasted input resources.

1. Sustainability refers to the capability of complex systems to maintain themselves over time.
2. In the context of human activity, sustainability has 3 aspects: social, economic and environmental.
3. All three aspects must be met if something is to be considered truly sustainable.
   • Anything which protects the environment by driving people into poverty, or something that supports the economy while undermining environmental services, will inevitably collapse, often with devastating consequences for people today and future generations.
   • While nothing can be sustained forever, ecosystems, including those with humans, have maintained themselves for tens of thousands of years.

The capacity of social, economic, environmental or technical systems to absorb shocks and recurrent disturbances so as to retain essential structures, processes and feedbacks.