CORE BUSINESS
ASTROPORT is a deep tech company focused on space construction and materials manufacturing. Our first technologies turn indigenous resource (regolith) into durable feedstock for planetary surface construction with advanced engineering applications for space and on earth. We are developing a suite of cutting-edge solutions to enable end-to-end, 3D printing-based construction of lunar surface structures. Our construction portfolio covers regolith refining technologies, autonomous robotic construction equipment, and civil engineering processes for site preparation and construction operations management. We monetize our technologies for terrestrial applications in several markets, including Defense, terrestrial rocket cargo logistics, mining and environmental clean-up/ remediation.
PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Astroport was founded with a vision to design, deploy, and operate interplanetary landing ports to facilitate safe, reliable, and efficient spaceflights to the Moon, Mars and beyond. Our technology innovations enable robotic construction of critical lunar infrastructure facilities and relates to the following three market segments: Building Feedstock from raw lunar regolith, Construction Equipment (Integrated autonomous robotic 3D printing system for brick forming and precise placement for complete structure assembly) and Construction Services (CONOPS, System Architecture, integration of 3rd party hardware, project execution including functional requirements development, structure design, project planning, and site preparation).
TECHNICAL MEANS
Max. 850 characters (with spaces) ASTROPORT’s Regolith Melting and Regolith Binding stabilization and solidification technologies offer versatile solutions for processing of regolith into feedstock for lunar construction, as well as for advanced additive manufacturing applications. Our molten regolith furnace technology can also be applied for minerals (metals) and volatiles (oxygen and helium-3) extraction and capture. Our Lunatron® 3D construction printer and toolset of excavation and site preparation implements, plus unique materials separation and conveyance technology for bulk regolith manipulation, advancethe state-of-art of geotechnical and civil engineering processes using autonomous swarm robotic construction techniques for fabrication of surface infrastructure such as landing pads, roads/pathways, industrial yards, and foundations.
MAIN CUSTOMERS
Our primary target segment - Space Construction - is estimated to reach $14B in the next 20 years. Size of this market and volume of operations will be determined by the commercial demand for space transportation from mining, tourism, manufacturing, and other industries operating on the lunar surface.
Whilst this cislunar market develops, Astroport participates in Government Catalysts research programs and commercial opportunities to use and mature our technology while developing global partnerships with private companies and academia.
MAJOR SPACE PROJECTS
Lunar Landing Pad Construction and Operations:
Construction of landing pads are the first type of infrastructure needed for lunar bases. To construct the pads, we use lunar regolith as the raw material for melting into durable bricks. In the longer term we will operate landing ports as maintenance depots to service logistical supply chain deliveries. Discarded landers are recycled for their metals using our friction-stir deposition technology.
ESA´s Lunar Economy Applications enabling study:
Astroport is involved in a consortium of EU companies elaborating a study of the construction of Landing and Launching Pads (LLP) on the spaceports on the moon surface. The spaceport will use communications, positioning, and navigation functions for the ground operations serviced using the ESA Moonlight satellite constellation system.
