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The cislunar infrastructure company

Built on the ground.Qualified for the Moon.

Precision optics and flight hardware qualified under vacuum and at temperature, and the measurements the lunar economy will be built on.

01 / The work

What we sell, and where it stands.

Qualification and precision hardware you can order today. Intelligence and measurement programs in development, each carrying its real stage.

01FORGE

Manufacturing & qualification

Quoting today

  • Precision optics
  • Vacuum EO/IR qualification
  • COTS-to-flight screening

Optical and thermal-vacuum qualification. Manufacturing built around measurement under vacuum and at temperature.

Explore FORGE
02NEXUS

Lunar economy intelligence

In development

A measurement corpus, price index, and coordination layer for understanding the lunar economy.

Explore NEXUS
03WIRES

Power-beaming measurement

In architecture

Measurement and characterization for power-beaming systems, connecting technical performance to evidence.

Explore WIRES
The thesis

The Moon is going from destinationto infrastructure.

Cislunar space, the volume from Earth orbit out past the Moon, is roughly a thousand times the operating volume of today's space economy, and the argument about whether it happens is over. The United States has committed to a base at the lunar south pole and published the build-out in tonnage: about eighty launches and seventy landings across three phases, ending in continuous crew. That is not exploration. That is a supply chain, and supply chains are won by whoever owns the layer underneath them.

What the domain does not yet have is its utility layer. Every mission still carries its own power, communications, and logistics, the way early factories each ran their own power plant. That model does not survive contact with eighty launches. NASA has already said so in writing, calling for “scalable, shared systems for power, logistics, communications, and navigation” and publishing the gaps its own architecture cannot yet close.

That is the whole opportunity, stated by the customer. Building the shared layer is the defining industrial project of the next two decades, and it is the entire business of this company. We are not competing to fly a mission. We are building what the missions run on.

Constanellis Aerospace exists to build and operate the infrastructure of the cislunar economy: the networks, the awareness, the mobility, and the manufacturing foundation that turn the space between Earth and the Moon into a place where nations and companies operate with confidence. Cislunar space is the ultimate high ground and the opening of the final frontier. The high ground is not taken. It is built. We are building it.

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01

Infrastructure first

Shared systems beat bespoke missions. Today every spacecraft carries its own communications, navigation, and logistics, the way early factories each ran their own power plant. We build what everything else runs on, and sell it the way infrastructure is bought: as a service.

02

One architecture

Five programs, co-designed as one stack. The network is also a sensor. The factory qualifies what the missions fly. The lander uses the link it helped design. Each layer makes the others stronger, and no seam is somebody else's problem.

03

Engineered for the contested domain

Infrastructure that only works on a friendly day is not infrastructure. Assured access, resilient links, and custody that holds through maneuver are the design case, not the stretch goal. We engineer for the hard cases first, because that is where the mission is decided.

04

Speed with rigor

Decisions in days, hardware in months, and a calibrated measurement chain behind every claim. Moving fast and proving it are the same discipline here: the cadence of a startup, the traceability of a national laboratory.

05

Built for the century

We are laying foundations that outlast their builders: networks that hold through the lunar night, standards that other operators plan against, and a company built to carry the work across generations. Ad astra per aspera.

National security

The high ground is not taken. It is built.

Cislunar space is a named national-security domain, and the systems that secure it are built from components somebody has to qualify, tested under the conditions they will actually see, and delivered with the documentation a program office audits against. That is the ground floor of the stack, and it is where Constanellis works today.

FORGE qualifies precision optics and electro-optical and infrared hardware under vacuum and at temperature, screens commercial parts for flight, and publishes the methods it works to. NEXUS builds the evidence base a planner needs to compare lunar infrastructure assumptions. Capability summaries and contracting pathways are ready for program offices today; the company is U.S.-owned and ITAR registered.

For Government

02 / Our purpose

Missions end. Infrastructure stays.

A mission reaches a destination. Infrastructure makes it possible to return, operate, and build. Constanellis brings manufacturing, qualification, and measurement to that longer horizon.

Prospector

Prospecting the Moon as a campaign, not a mission.

PROSPECTOR-0 flies an aggregated qualification manifest: operators who each cannot justify a mission alone, flying together, each keeping their own results while the calibrated reference environment compounds. PROSPECTOR-1 goes to the south pole to characterize the resource and return the dataset that prices the lunar economy.

Every program in the architecture rides on it: FORGE qualifies the hardware, NEXUS holds the data, HERMES flies the operations, WIRES measures what the power link delivers, ATLAS lands the payload.

Inside the Campaign [ PROSPECTOR-0 · QUALIFICATION ] · [ PROSPECTOR-1 · SOUTH POLE ]
The team

Infrastructure is built by people who stay.

Constanellis is built and run by engineers and operators from across the American space and defense industrial base who chose to build the next layer of it. The work spans precision optics and vacuum test on the factory floor to measurement science and mission operations above it.

The people who join now will lay foundations on and around the Moon that generations after us will operate. If you want your next decade to produce infrastructure that outlasts you, this company was built for you.

Not looking for a role? Missions are volunteered into existence before they are funded into existence. Join the constellation.

[ Funded roles ]

Every posted role is funded. No evergreen postings, no ghost pipelines.

[ Posted bands ]

Every role carries its base-salary band, published without being asked twice.

[ Two sites ]

Washington, D.C. and Centennial, Colorado. The hardware lives in Colorado.

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Bring us the requirement.

A part to qualify, a lot to screen, or a question the evidence has to answer. Tell us which, and the reply is a plan, not a pitch.

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