Technologies – Cislune

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 work connects regolith mobility, traction, and surface interaction questions with practical test evidence. Public photos should use the latest cleared hardware imagery.

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. CITA/TRUST Phase II has been awarded and is currently in contracting.

LunaRecycle and logistics

Recycling demonstrations, terrestrial test campaigns, prototype transport, field support, and lunar resource handling concepts.

PERDEX excavation hardware detail after successful build and testing — PERDEX tested hardware detail for icy-regolith excavation work.

TREAD hardware detail for wheel-terrain and granular-material mobility testing — TREAD hardware setup for wheel-terrain and granular-material mobility testing.

GRASP compacting wheel hardware for prepared and trafficable lunar surfaces — GRASP and compacting-wheel work supports prepared, trafficable surfaces.

PERDEX excavation system view for volatile-aware ISRU work — PERDEX excavation-system view.

PERDEX mechanism view for lunar excavation work — Mechanism detail for volatile-aware excavation.

TREAD test article and wheel-terrain interaction setup — TREAD test article and mobility setup.

TREAD hardware setup for granular mobility testing — Hardware setup for regolith mobility testing.

GRASP prepared-surface hardware for trafficability studies — Prepared-surface hardware for trafficability studies.

CRATR mobility and regolith interaction hardware context — CRATR regolith interaction hardware.

SimMoon

Digital twin and VR planning for lunar surface operations

SimMoon gives Cislune a public-facing bridge between mission rehearsal, operator training, trusted autonomy, and surface-system planning. Current internal direction keeps Unity as the development base, maintains Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro compatibility, and uses a planning-table/base-builder path that can connect to CARVE, GRASP, TRUST, and CITA.

SimMoon page Apple App Store Vision Pro demo TRUST/CITA SBIR context

SimMoon lunar operations rehearsal environment. Public material should describe the planning and training value without exposing CITA/TRUST implementation details.

Simulation workflow

SimMoon sits next to CARVE, autonomy, and hardware-in-the-loop work

CARVE concept shown in Isaac Sim for surface-operations planning — CARVE in Isaac Sim for robotic surface operations.

CARVE Gazebo simulation view for robotic surface operations — Gazebo simulation context.

CARVE Isaac Sim alternate view for autonomy workflow — Autonomy and terrain-planning workflow.

CARVE robotics simulation view for lunar surface operations — Robotics simulation view for surface operations.

CARVE terrain planning view for robotic site preparation — Terrain planning for site preparation.

CARVE sensing simulation view for surface operations — Sensing and autonomy simulation.

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.

Start a technical discussion

Cislune in-house thermal and materials-processing capability — Thermal and materials-processing capability.

LunaRecycle material and process evidence.

A practical lunar infrastructure portfolio