Provide and condition
Conversion, regulation, protection, and switching, qualified to the interface each unit serves rather than to a datasheet. Power provision itself is written against delivered and verified energy, not against nameplate capacity.
Program 04 · WIRES
All programsWIRES
Wireless Infrastructure for Remote Exploration Systems
Power Provision & Measurement
A lunar surface runs on power that has to be conditioned, carried, and handed across an interface, and on somebody being able to say what actually arrived. WIRES builds both halves: the hardware that provides and distributes, and the measurement that verifies.
In development and in architecture. Nothing in this program is sold today; the catalog says which line is at which stage.
Constanellis builds five programs from the ground outward: FORGE and NEXUS on the ground, HERMES and WIRES in orbit, ATLAS on the lunar surface. WIRES is the orbit stage of that sequence.
The question
Did the power that was promised actually arrive?
Two sides of a power interface routinely state different numbers for the same connection: one plans to deliver, the other expects to draw, and nobody measures the difference until it fails on a surface. A headline efficiency figure has the same problem, because it is only useful when the boundary, the environment, and the treatment of uncertainty are stated with it.
WIRES covers six lines: power provision against a delivered energy agreement, power management and distribution, the surface distribution harness, power interface verification, the independent measurement referee for power beaming and radio frequency, and energy storage characterisation. Each is in development or in architecture, and the catalog carries the stage, the unit of sale, and what has to exist first.
Program scope
What we are developing.
Carry it, and measure the loss
A surface distribution harness is a distance problem at voltage. Cable, connector, and protection are designed together, and the loss budget is measured rather than calculated.
Verify the interface
Measure what actually crossed, against what each side expected to deliver and to receive. The same discipline is what an independent referee brings to a power beaming or radio frequency claim: a measurement by a party with no stake in the result.
Deliverables
What an engagement produces.
A measurement definition
What is compared, where the system boundary sits, which operating conditions matter, and what the result will and will not establish. Written before any measurement is proposed.
An uncertainty budget
Every term named with its type, distribution, and basis, combined and expanded the way our published budgets are, so the number arrives with the confidence it deserves.
A comparison frame
Results from different setups placed side by side only where the conditions allow it, with the differences that prevent a direct comparison stated.
A source-preserving record
Method, conditions, calibration chain, and data kept together, so a third party can check the work rather than take it on trust.
The catalog · 6 lines
What WIRES sells, line by line.
Each line with what you receive, how it is bought, and the stage it is actually at. No prices: the number is quoted against your requirement.
| Line | What you receive | Unit of sale | Status | Earliest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| W-01Power management and distribution units | Conversion, regulation, protection and switching hardware qualified to the interface it serves | Per unit | In development | Year 2 |
| W-02Surface power distribution harness | Cable, connector and protection design for distance runs at voltage, with the loss budget measured rather than calculated | Per run, priced by length and rating | In development | Year 2 |
| W-03Power interface verification and acceptance measurement | Independent measurement of what actually crossed the interface, against what each side expected to deliver and receive | Per interface, per campaign | In development | Year 1 to 2 |
| W-04Independent measurement referee, power beaming and radio frequency | A measurement by a party with no stake in the result, which is what an acceptance test is for | Per test campaign | In architecture | Year 2 to 3 |
| W-05Power provision against a delivered energy agreement | Energy delivered and verified, billed on the verified quantity | Per kilowatt hour delivered and verified | In architecture | Gated |
| W-06Energy storage characterisation | Capacity, rate and degradation measured across the temperature range the mission actually sees | Per cell, module or string | In development | Year 2 |
Maturity
Where each part stands.
Every label reads from the one auditable maturity file. Nothing has flown; nothing below is offered as a service today.
| Part | Status | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Power management and distribution | Conversion, regulation, protection, and switching hardware, qualified to the interface it serves. Catalog line W-01. | |
| Surface distribution harness | Cable, connector, and protection for distance runs at voltage, with the loss budget measured. Catalog line W-02. | |
| Power interface verification | Independent measurement of what crossed the interface, against what each side expected. Catalog line W-03. | |
| Measurement referee | Power beaming and radio frequency, measured by a party with no stake in the result. Catalog line W-04. | |
| Power provision | Energy delivered and verified, billed on the verified quantity. The instrument it depends on does not exist anywhere yet. Catalog line W-05. | |
| Energy storage characterisation | Capacity, rate, and degradation across the temperature range the mission sees. Catalog line W-06. |
Limits
What WIRES does not claim.
- No power service is operating. No energy has been delivered, measured, or billed under any of these lines, and none is offered for sale today.
- No efficiency, distance, or power figure for any system appears on this site, ours or anyone else's, because none has been measured by us.
- A measurement definition is not an accreditation, and a comparison frame is not a ranking.
Engagement
How an engagement runs.
Frame
You describe the system at a non-sensitive level, the performance question, and the conditions you need to understand.
Scope
We reply with a proposed boundary, the conditions that would need to be stated, and the terms an uncertainty budget would carry. No technical data changes hands yet.
Agree
Scope, conditions, and the handling of any controlled data are agreed in writing before measurement work is planned.
Evidence
See how we build a measurement.
Published methods
Test methods and uncertainty budgets, numbered and citable.
Worked uncertainty budget
Nine terms, combined and expanded, against a published criterion.
The technology page
Why a value without a budget is an opinion.
The catalog
All six WIRES lines with the unit of sale, the prerequisite, and the stage each is at.
Open roles on this program
All open positionsRelated programs
The work connects across the stack.
Start with the measurement question.
Describe the system at a non-sensitive level, the performance question, and the conditions you need to understand. We can discuss the proposed scope before technical data changes hands.
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