Programs

• FORGEAccepting workManufacturing · Industrial baseBuild to print, inspection and thermal vacuum qualification for defense and space hardware.
• ATLASIn developmentSurface power · Lunar logisticsSurface power and logistics for the lunar south pole.
• HERMESIn developmentCislunar communications · OperationsTerminals and operations for lunar networks.
• WIRESIn developmentPower beaming · NetworksPower beaming and links, independently measured.
• NEXUSIn developmentLunar economy dataThe price index and supply map of the lunar economy.

Four hard facts about the Moon

Each one is a program.

• 354 hours of night

  About fifteen Earth days without sunlight, every month. Power has to be stored, beamed or generated through it.

  ATLAS · WIRES

• −230 °C

  Inside the permanently shadowed craters where the water ice is. Hardware has to be qualified for it before it flies.

  FORGE

• 41% out of sight

  Of the surface never faces Earth. The rest is 1.28 light-seconds away, and every mission competes for the same antennas.

  HERMES

• $100k a kilogram

  The delivery price advertised for the next generation of landers. Every kilogram has to justify itself.

  NEXUS