MG-O26
Second 2026 flight. Same year, different cohort, deeper dataset.
The second cycle of the baseline year.
Catalyst is the second 2026 orbital flight. It runs the same nine-month exposure window as Horizon, on the same capsule platform, with a different payload cohort. Two flights in one year doubles the dataset for the genetic baseline.
Where Horizon establishes the reference point, Catalyst widens it. Two cohorts, two return windows, two independent samples of what space does to Cannabis sativa L. genetics.
One flight is a result. Two flights are a trend.
A single mission produces a dataset. Two missions produce a comparison. With Catalyst alongside Horizon, the program can separate flight-specific noise from flight-invariant signal — which changes belong to "space" and which belong to "this particular flight."
That separation is what makes the baseline a baseline. Without it, every later mission has to do twice the work.
Manifest locks closer to launch.
Catalyst's payload composition is co-designed with the genetics partners after Horizon's pre-flight manifest locks. Cohort overlap is intentional: shared parent lines across both flights enable direct comparison; flight-unique lines extend the diversity envelope.