Cislune
Lunar excavation, robotics, and resource recovery. Company background, photographs, and sources for journalists, conference organizers, and collaborators.
About Cislune
Cislune develops machines and software for lunar excavation, robotics, and resource recovery. Based in Southern California, the team combines mechanical design, fabrication, electronics, controls, materials testing, and field operations. Its work includes PERDEX icy-regolith excavation, wheel-terrain testing, regolith processing, and SimMoon mission rehearsal. Cislune has received 15 NASA contracts and eight NASA competition awards since 2021, including the 2026 LunaRecycle Challenge Highest Mass Efficiency Prize for its CRAFTER recycling system.
Company figures checked September 4, 2026. The contract total counts executed NASA prime contracts once, excluding supplements and commercial contracts.
Hardware, testing, and the people behind it.
LunaRecycle finals
PERDEX testing
Wheel-terrain testing
Cislune team
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- NASA: LunaRecycle Challenge Phase 2 results
- NASA: Break the Ice Lunar Challenge final results paper
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