SEED SPACE
Technology

The full stack, end to end

Three capabilities that only work together: the materials to build with, the power to run on, and the autonomy to build without us.

Composite ceramic from the ground up — SEED SPACE
Materials

Composite ceramic from the ground up

Anorthite and mullite — the most common mineral in the lunar highlands — is sorted, sintered, treated and reinforced, than shaped into high performance ultra reliable structural parts. We design those parts as topology-optimized lattices, so they use the least material for the load they carry maximizing the output and speed.

A FPSE engine that runs on sunlight — SEED SPACE
Power

A FPSE engine that runs on sunlight

A free-piston Stirling engine drives a transverse-flux linear alternator to turn concentrated sunlight into electricity. It has no rotating shaft seal, no liquid fuel and no rare-earth magnets — and most of its body is the same composite.

One platform, many configurations — SEED SPACE
Robotics

One platform, many configurations

A single rover platform accepts a catalog of interchangeable modules — power, solar concentrator, radiator, manipulator, sensing, cargo — over one standard mother–father connector, so the same chassis can mine, manufacture, transport or assemble.

Mass that doesn’t come from Earth — SEED SPACE
In-situ resources

Mass that doesn’t come from Earth

Everything begins as regolith: gathered, electrostatically separated, reduced and sintered into finished parts on site. The more that is made locally, the less has to be launched — and the faster the system can grow.

Hardware

The build, in detail

Real, manufacturable parts — fired small, joined by one standard connector, and made almost entirely from local material.

Transverse-flux linear alternator — ferrite bias, iron poles, aluminium windings.
Transverse-flux linear alternator — ferrite bias, iron poles, aluminium windings.
Iron-rotor induction motor + synchro — drive and joints, no magnets or semiconductors.
Iron-rotor induction motor + synchro — drive and joints, no magnets or semiconductors.
The mother–father connector — one standard ceramic joint for every assembly.
The mother–father connector — one standard ceramic joint for every assembly.
Ring-stack pressure vessel: small fired rings, iron-banded and brazed into a large hull.
Ring-stack pressure vessel: small fired rings, iron-banded and brazed into a large hull.
Standard worker rover — vacuum-tube electronics, no silicon per unit.
Standard worker rover — vacuum-tube electronics, no silicon per unit.
A shared “eye” rover: vision and compute for a fleet of blind workers.
A shared “eye” rover: vision and compute for a fleet of blind workers.
Reduction factory: ilmenite + hydrogen → iron, titania and oxygen.
Reduction factory: ilmenite + hydrogen → iron, titania and oxygen.
Silicon and thin-film line: silica + magnesium → local devices, in vacuum.
Silicon and thin-film line: silica + magnesium → local devices, in vacuum.
Non-silicon sensors — thermocouples, thermopile, RTD, TiO₂, synchro.
Non-silicon sensors — thermocouples, thermopile, RTD, TiO₂, synchro.
The Seed — the single Earth-built mother-refinery that starts it all.
The Seed — the single Earth-built mother-refinery that starts it all.
Productive travel: paving a sintered-ceramic track between sites.
Productive travel: paving a sintered-ceramic track between sites.
Next

See where it gets built

From a single Earth-built seed refinery to a self-expanding industrial base — the Moon first, then asteroids, Mars and Earth.

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