Technologies
A practical lunar infrastructure portfolio
Cislune’s NASA-funded work connects excavation, sorting, site preparation, simulation, autonomy, recycling, and field operations.
PERDEX: tested excavation hardware
PERDEX has moved beyond concept work into built and tested hardware for collecting icy regolith while reducing volatile loss from cut to collection.
CISORT: sorting and beneficiation
Compact integrated sorting and beneficiation technologies that help turn raw regolith into useful material streams.
GRASP and SHEARPREP
Compacting-wheel, geotechnical sensing, and surface-preparation concepts that connect rover interaction with civil-engineering outcomes.
CRATR
CRATR connects regolith mobility, traction, and surface interaction questions with practical hardware and test evidence.
FLUFSCAN and landing protection
Plume-surface interaction and landing-protection work spanning sensing, preparation, dust/ejecta risk, and protective infrastructure.
SimMoon, TRUST, and CITA
Mission rehearsal, digital twins, hardware-in-the-loop workflows, operator training, and trusted autonomy, supported by awarded Phase II work.
LunaRecycle and logistics
Recycling demonstrations, terrestrial test campaigns, prototype transport, field support, and lunar resource handling concepts.
Proven in hardware and operations
Follow the work from mission question to usable evidence
These case studies show how Cislune combines hardware, field operations, simulation, and partner integration around lunar surface problems.
PERDEX: volatile-aware excavation
Built hardware and a completed thermal-vacuum campaign for collecting icy regolith while reducing volatile loss.
Read the PERDEX case study
Break the Ice: sustained field operations
Excavation, hauling, autonomy supervision, logistics, and maintenance tested through repeated Mojave Desert operations.
Read the field case study
SimMoon: mission rehearsal
Interactive lunar scenarios connect operator decisions, trusted autonomy, rover behavior, and hardware-in-the-loop development.
Read the SimMoon case studySimMoon
Digital twin and VR planning for lunar surface operations
SimMoon connects mission rehearsal, operator training, trusted autonomy, and surface-system planning. Built in Unity for immersive devices including Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro, it provides a planning environment that can connect with CARVE, GRASP, TRUST, and CITA work.
Simulation workflow
SimMoon sits next to CARVE, autonomy, and hardware-in-the-loop work
Capability themes
What Cislune can explore, build, test, and support
Nostromo and robotic excavation
Robotic surface-system work spanning excavation, mobility, autonomy, controls, and mission operations concepts.
RE-RASSOR and bucket drums
Excavation with bucket drums, counter-rotating concepts, granular-material handling, and ISRU feedstock collection.
Penetrometer and regolith mechanics
Soil-strength measurement, trafficability, compaction, wheel interaction, and surface-preparation test support.
PSI analysis
Plume-surface interaction analysis for landing-site preparation, ejecta risk, protective infrastructure, and nearby asset safety.
Geopolymer and CLSM production
Regolith-derived construction material concepts, controlled low-strength material production, pads, roads, berms, and civil infrastructure analogs.
Lucerne Valley analog operations
Camper-supported field operations and analog-site logistics for realistic prototype tests away from the shop.
Thermal and solar processing
High-temperature material processing, concentrated-solar concepts, furnace-supported experiments, and resource-processing studies.
DEM/CRM simulation
Discrete-element and contact-rich modeling workflows, including PyDEME and PyChrono context, to connect design choices with regolith behavior.
How to engage
Bring a mission, test, or technical question.
Cislune welcomes early collaboration as well as defined procurements. A useful first conversation can start with a mission need, a subsystem idea, a regolith test, an analog campaign, a commercial lunar infrastructure concept, or a technical question worth exploring together.
