What this guide is for
Your organization launches a PPP program to build power, landing pads, habitats and plants that make oxygen, water and propellant on Mars with robots, AI and tokenized finance, as public-private partnerships (PPPs) between space agencies and companies.
The case
Mars will need power, air and water before people can stay
Missions to Mars have been led by governments, one rover and one orbiter at a time. The first lasting infrastructure on Mars will be prepared, built and run under long partnerships in which agencies and companies share the cost, the risk and the assets, and the organizations that prepare those partnerships now will help build the first settlements on another planet. This guide invites organizations building on Mars to launch a PPP program, starting with the projects at home in Jordan.
The guide
Carry the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity to Mars
Your organization opens a dedicated PPP program, a team and a set of offers that prepare, build, finance and run power, landing pads, habitats and resource plants on Mars, starting with Jordan’s $86 billion of projects and the $46 billion anchored in Aqaba, with Jordan’s desert as the place to test them first.
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A Mars PPP team
A dedicated team that knows how PPPs are prepared, procured and financed follows the Mars plans of space agencies and their partners from the first market sounding and decides early where the organization can design, build, finance or operate an asset.
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Oxygen, water and fuel made on Mars
NASA’s MOXIE experiment on the Perseverance rover made 122 grams of oxygen from the carbon dioxide in the Martian air over 16 runs. Larger plants built and run by private partners can supply breathable air and rocket propellant, and NASA’s maps of buried ice in the mid-latitudes of Mars point to where water can be mined.
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Power and shelter built ahead of the crews
Robots can land first and build power plants, landing pads, roads and shelters before any crew arrives. NASA and the US Department of Energy plan a lunar surface reactor by 2030 and expect the same technology to serve future missions to Mars, which gives long power contracts on Mars a starting point.
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Jordan’s desert as the test site
Jordan’s PPP Law No. 19 of 2023 accepts direct private proposals under Article 15. An organization can propose a Mars test range in the desert around Wadi Rum for rovers, construction robots, habitats and crew training, built and run as a PPP and paid by the agencies, companies and universities that use it.
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Pilots as small-scale PPPs
PPP Regulation No. 9 of 2024 defines small-scale PPPs below $14.1 million, which can be bundled into one feasibility report and one tender. A habitat trial, a robotics test bed or a crew training center at that scale gives the organization a live asset in Jordan and a reference it can carry to Mars.
Why organizations building on Mars
Mars will need power, air and water before people can stay
Robots have already driven across Mars and made oxygen from its air, and the UAE’s Hope probe became the first Arab mission to reach Mars orbit in February 2021. Living there will take landing pads, power, oxygen, water and habitats built by robots ahead of the crews, and partnerships between agencies and companies can carry that cost and risk.
Where organizations building on Mars fit in a PPP
- Preparation
- Site, ice and engineering studies that show where an asset can be built and who will pay for it.
- Tender
- Places in consortia beside space agencies, developers, robotics makers and launch providers.
- Financial close
- Long service contracts with agencies and companies that make an asset on Mars bankable.
- Operation
- Robot fleets and AI that run power, oxygen, water and landing pads for decades.
- Exit
- Stakes in operating assets on Mars that long-term and tokenized investors can buy.
Jordan’s place in the Mars economy
NASA notes that the colors and textures of Wadi Rum closely match those of Mars, and films have used it as a stand-in for the planet. Analog missions ran at a research facility in Wadi Rum in 2024 and 2025, Jordan launched its first satellite, built by university students, in 2018, and it signed the Artemis Accords in April 2026. Its engineers and universities can supply software, design and training to the agencies and companies that build on Mars.
Why a program, and why now
The partnerships that will build on Mars are being shaped now, through the work on the Moon that comes first. A program gives an organization a team, a pipeline and the partners to act early, starting with test sites and pilots in Jordan that prove its machines and methods long before they leave Earth.
Futureproofing
Futureproof Organizations Building on Mars for the infrastructure singularity
This free 17-page guide shows how, with small PPPs in parallel, PPP research labs, artificial intelligence, robotics, tokenization and six first steps.
Jordan and Aqaba
An $86 billion pipeline to start with
Many of them, from desert solar fields to water, mining and robotics, use the same machines and methods that infrastructure on Mars will need. An organization that builds and runs one PPP in Jordan’s desert can carry the same team, machines and data to Mars.
- $86B
- of PPP and infrastructure projects in development in Jordan
- $46B
- of them anchored in Aqaba
Artificial intelligence
On Mars, AI has to run much of each asset on its own, because radio signals take minutes to travel between the planets. It can plan where robots dig and build, balance power, oxygen and water through dust storms and cold nights and catch faults in a habitat before they become dangerous. An organization building on Mars can train and test those systems on Jordanian assets first, where the same models can run solar fields and water networks at home.
Robotics
Robots will reach Mars ahead of the crews and build the first landing pads, roads, power plants and shelters. An organization building on Mars can test those machines in Wadi Rum, whose colors and textures NASA describes as a close match to those found on Mars, and train Jordanian engineers and technicians to run and repair them.
Tokenization
Infrastructure on Mars needs very large, patient capital and pays back over decades. Tokenization lets an organization offer stakes in a Martian power or oxygen plant, or in a test range in Jordan, to investors around the world, paid from the service contracts that agencies and companies sign, so people in Jordan and beyond can own a share of the first infrastructure on another planet.
Small PPPs and research labs
Small PPPs let an organization prove methods for Mars on Earth at low cost. It can host a PPP research lab in Jordan that tests rovers, construction robots, habitats and AI operations in the desert, publish every result and carry the pilots that work into contracts on Mars.
Unsolicited proposals
A direct proposal lets an organization bring a Mars test range, a habitat trial or a crew training center to Jordan as a project of its own design. It can protect the ideas and technology behind it and keep the right to match the best offer if the project goes to tender.
The program
How the program could work
The program can sit inside the organization’s strategy, engineering or business development team, with a PPP lead at its center and offers built from the machines, software and sites it already has.
- PPP team
- A small team of engineering, legal, finance and business people that follows every Mars program and every relevant PPP in Jordan.
- Mars pipeline
- A map of the power, landing, oxygen, water, habitat and communications services that space agencies will need on Mars.
- Test sites
- Mars test ranges in Jordan’s desert for rovers, construction robots, habitats and crew training, built and run as PPPs.
- Resources
- Plans to turn Martian air, ice and soil into oxygen, water, propellant and building material.
- Direct proposals
- Test sites, training centers and pilots proposed under Article 15 around needs the organization sees.
- Pilots
- Small-scale PPPs below $14.1 million that build a track record on live assets in Jordan.
- Partners
- Agreements with space agencies, robotics and AI companies, universities, banks and long-term funds.
What the organization gains
The organization gains long service contracts with space agencies and companies, a place in the consortia that will build the first infrastructure on Mars and test sites in Jordan that earn from every machine and crew trained there.
It also gains a role in how people settle another planet. The organizations that prepare, build and run the first PPPs on Mars will set the contracts, standards and methods that later projects there follow, and Jordan can supply the engineers and test sites behind them.
Next steps
How an organization building on Mars can start
Any organization with a Mars ambition, in Jordan or abroad, can take this guide forward. The first steps use the engineers, machines and partners it already has.
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Mandate
Board or leadership approval for a Mars PPP program, with its services, its role and its first-year goals.
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Team
A named program lead, with engineering, legal, finance and business people drawn from the organization’s existing teams.
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Pipeline
A map of the services agencies will need on Mars, beside Jordan’s $86 billion of projects where the same machines can work first.
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Test site
A Mars test range or habitat trial in Jordan’s desert for rovers, robots and crews, scoped as a PPP.
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Partners
Space agencies, robotics and AI companies, universities, banks and long-term funds.
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Pilot
A first test site, training center or direct proposal in Jordan, taken from idea to submission.
Jordan has a desert that looks like Mars, the engineers, a place among the Artemis Accords signatories and a law that lets an organization propose its own projects. A PPP program puts your organization at the center of how the superintelligent infrastructure future reaches Mars.
The full document
Inside this guide
Seventeen pages and thirteen chapters, from the case for a PPP program to the first steps, written for organizations building on Mars.
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01Introduction
Why a century of infrastructure needs rebuilding, and the $500 trillion it will take.
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02The guide
Carry the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity to Mars
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03Jordan and Aqaba
An $86 billion pipeline to start with
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04Artificial intelligence
How AI designs, structures and runs PPP projects, and what it means for organizations building on Mars.
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05Robotics
How robots build infrastructure and keep it running, and what that means for organizations building on Mars.
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06Tokenization
How tokenization funds projects from their own revenue, and the role it opens for organizations building on Mars.
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07Small PPPs in parallel
Why many small PPPs teach a country faster than a few large ones.
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08PPP research labs
A lab in each sector, running ten small PPP projects a year.
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09Unsolicited proposals
How Jordan’s PPP law accepts direct proposals from private companies.
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10Why organizations building on Mars
Mars will need power, air and water before people can stay
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11The program
The program can sit inside the organization’s strategy, engineering or business development team, with a PPP lead at its center and offers built from the machines, software and sites it already has.
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12About
About Jordan PPP and what it offers.
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13Next steps
How an organization building on Mars can start: six first steps.
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Questions
Questions about the guide for Organizations Building on Mars
- What does the guide for Organizations Building on Mars propose?
- Your organization launches a PPP program to build power, landing pads, habitats and plants that make oxygen, water and propellant on Mars with robots, AI and tokenized finance, as public-private partnerships (PPPs) between space agencies and companies.
- Why should organizations building on Mars launch a PPP program?
- Mars will need power, air and water before people can stay. Robots have already driven across Mars and made oxygen from its air, and the UAE’s Hope probe became the first Arab mission to reach Mars orbit in February 2021. Living there will take landing pads, power, oxygen, water and habitats built by robots ahead of the crews, and partnerships between agencies and companies can carry that cost and risk.
- Which PPP projects can organizations building on Mars take part in?
- Jordan has about $86 billion of PPP and infrastructure projects in development, $46 billion of them anchored in Aqaba. Many of them, from desert solar fields to water, mining and robotics, use the same machines and methods that infrastructure on Mars will need. An organization that builds and runs one PPP in Jordan’s desert can carry the same team, machines and data to Mars.
- How can organizations building on Mars start a PPP program?
- Any organization with a Mars ambition, in Jordan or abroad, can take this guide forward. The first steps use the engineers, machines and partners it already has. The guide sets out six first steps: mandate, team, pipeline, test site, partners and pilot.
- What does a PPP program give organizations building on Mars?
- The organization gains long service contracts with space agencies and companies, a place in the consortia that will build the first infrastructure on Mars and test sites in Jordan that earn from every machine and crew trained there.
- Is the guide for Organizations Building on Mars free?
- Yes. It is free to read on this page and free to download as a 17-page PDF, with the case for a PPP program, Jordan’s pipeline, the role of AI, robotics and tokenization, the program and six first steps.
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