Company update
Cislune summer progress: hardware, software, and public collaboration
Cislune has refreshed its public website and is pushing several lunar surface infrastructure programs forward at once: excavation, beneficiation, simulation, trusted autonomy, recycling, rover development, and field-ready operations.
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Why this update
Cislune is becoming easier to evaluate, contact, and work with.
Cislune’s work spans several technical areas, but the common thread is straightforward: lunar surface systems need practical hardware, credible test evidence, useful simulation, field logistics, and teams that can move quickly without losing engineering discipline. The updated website organizes that work around the problems Cislune can help solve next.
The company now has 15 NASA contracts closed or in final review, 7 NASA competition wins, and active commercial credibility through work with Honeybee Robotics, a Blue Origin company, and Lockheed Martin. That combination matters for NASA reviewers, agency teams, commercial space companies, collaborators, and investors evaluating whether Cislune is more than a concept-stage lunar startup.
Current workstreams
Six visible areas of progress
Website rebuilt for collaboration
The new cislune.com emphasizes concise explanations, real hardware imagery, public award context, facilities, and contact paths for NASA, agency, prime contractor, investor, commercial, and research collaboration.
Summer interns joining the build cycle
Summer contributors are helping convert active programs into stronger documentation, test support, simulation workflows, public visuals, and repeatable engineering artifacts.
LunaRecycle finals work
Cislune is continuing work connected to LunaRecycle finals, with emphasis on clear material-processing evidence, practical demonstration readiness, and public-safe communication of the recycling and resource-handling story.
PERDEX testing and documentation
PERDEX testing is complete enough to shift attention toward documentation and public-safe evidence. The useful public takeaway is tested hardware and material interaction relevant to volatile-aware lunar excavation and ISRU conversations.
CITA/TRUST contracting
CITA/TRUST Phase II has been awarded and is moving through final contracting. Public language should stay at that level until contracting details and release language are complete.
CARVE rover v2 and CISORT progress
CARVE rover v2 is in active development, while CISORT work continues on beneficiation and vertical conveyance. Both efforts support Cislune’s broader surface-operations stack.
Hardware and software evidence
The portfolio is moving as a connected system.
Partner signal
External work is becoming part of the Cislune story.
Cislune has worked with Honeybee Robotics on PERDEX ice-mining excavation work and is supporting Lockheed Martin on commercial lunar infrastructure work. Those relationships connect the company’s NASA-funded portfolio to real external teams and practical lunar surface infrastructure needs.
That mix of agency-funded development, competition wins, commercial work, shop capability, field logistics, and simulation gives Cislune multiple paths to help partners move lunar surface systems from concept toward testable hardware and operations.
Collaboration areas
Where the next useful conversations can start.
Cislune is interested in conversations around excavation, regolith processing, surface preparation, trusted autonomy, simulation, recycling, field logistics, and lunar infrastructure demonstrations.
A good first discussion can start with a mission need, a test campaign, an integration question, a field demonstration, or a customer-funded path for maturing a surface-system capability.
Collaboration
The next useful conversation starts with a mission need.
Cislune is interested in discussions around excavation, regolith processing, surface preparation, trusted autonomy, simulation, recycling, field logistics, and lunar infrastructure demonstrations.
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