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The road to a working site

Qualification on Earth, demonstration on the Moon, a precursor on Mars — and a transfer programme that brings the same autonomy back to industry here.

Active

Analogue campaign

Window
2024 — ongoing
Target
Atacama, Chile

A permanent test range where every system must survive a full year of dust, radiation and 60 K thermal swing before it is allowed near a launch manifest.

Objectives

  • 01Unsupervised traverse validation
  • 02Dust ingress and wear data
  • 03Fleet coordination at site scale
In qualification

Lunar south demonstration

Window
2028
Target
Shackleton rim, Moon

Four Lumen nodes, one R-9 Forge and one AX-1 Ares establish the first self-powered, self-mapping worksite in permanent shadow.

Objectives

  • 01Sintered landing pad, 24 m diameter
  • 02Water yield from shadowed regolith
  • 03Survive 14 days of lunar night
Planned

Mars precursor

Window
2029
Target
Jezero west, Mars

A six-machine expedition operating a full Martian year with no route commands from Earth, preparing a crew-rated site.

Objectives

  • 01400 km cumulative traverse
  • 02Pressure-tested habitat shell
  • 03Signed build record for crew certification
Active

Terra transfer

Window
2027 — ongoing
Target
Earth industry

The same autonomy stack applied to underground mining, decommissioning and disaster response, where people should not be.

Objectives

  • 01Two industrial pilot partners
  • 02Certified safety envelope on Earth
  • 03Shared tooling with flight programmes
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