Space Vehicles
The space vehicles division focuses on three primary classes of vehicles wrapped around common cores, or similar architectures: launch vehicles (LV), landers and microgravity transport vehicles.
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These are microsat sized launch vehicles that use a larger number of very inexpensive common modules. By assembling the LV in this manner, you do increase fuel costs, but dramatically reduce the overall cost of the launch and therefore the mission, and increase launcher reliability.
These modules also use the same tankage and engines as used in the Speck Lunar Lander, further reducing costs.
The "Speck" Lunar Launch System
Currently under construction, it's only the first of a large family of modular, re-configurable landing systems that will provide simple, straightforward transportation for goods and passengers between the Earth and the moon.
Aethon
An open-seated lander with a large gantry and an open bay in the middle. It will be constructed from Speck lander components—land three to four Speck landers on the surface, then build an Aethon out of the parts. We’ll use it to pick people or cargo up from lunar orbit and bring them back down to the Moon, or for long distance surface transport. It's large open central bay can be reconfigured for a variety of missions, from personal transport, to bulk cargo transport to tankage. The Aethon will be the backbone of early Lunar and CisLunar transport.
The Sled
Another Aethon variant that is designed specifically to operate in microgravity, never to touch a planetary surface. The sled will be used for a variety of missions from close in exploration, personnel transport, and even satellite servicing and refuelling. Designed from the beginning to live in space, it will operate more efficiently than any other spacecraft that has to transition through another environment first.
What’s the eventual goal? We envision an Aldrin style cycler in a continuous orbit around Earth and the moon. Think of it like a ski gondola, always moving. We’ll be able to transfer people on and off with Aethons or other spacecraft at either end, making travel convenient and feasible for people who aren’t trained as astronauts or pilots. That means a lot less time spent in a space suit, too.