Our approach
A delivery line, engineered for the hard terrain.
ATLAS is designed as a delivery line, not a flag-and-footprints mission: recurring delivery of infrastructure-class cargo to sites chosen for what can be built there, including polar terrain and the permanently shadowed regions where the resources are. Precision is the defining requirement, because cargo that lands a kilometer from where it is needed is a stranded asset, not a delivery.
Precision lunar delivery[ IN ARCHITECTURE ]
The scope runs past touchdown. ATLAS is designed to deliver utility as well as cargo: surface power delivery and distribution to assets that must survive the lunar night is part of the program's design intent. The engineering groundwork proceeds now, inside the same GNC and systems discipline that serves HERMES, with every landing drawing on EVERLIGHT navigation and the NEXUS picture of the approach corridor.
Surface power delivery[ DESIGN INTENT ]
ClassInfrastructure-scale surface delivery
Payload accommodationModular, on a standard mechanical and electrical interface
Payload massUndisclosedInside the propulsion and structures trade. Discussed under NDA.
Landing precisionTerrain-relative navigation to meter-class accuracy against a mapped site with known lighting
Landing precision, stated as errorUndisclosedAn accuracy without its confidence bound is a marketing figure. Both are discussed under NDA, together.
Night survivalSurvival case sized against a 354-hour lunar night with no solar generation for the duration
AutonomyHazard-relative descent and landing, onboard, without a ground loop in the descent
Surface powerPower delivery and distribution to surface assets
Program phasePhase 2 of the Constanellis architecture
Assumptions
- Values are design targets at the maturity the badge above states, for a Phase 2 platform.
- 354 hours is the reference night duration the survival case is sized against. Actual darkness at a given site is set by that site's illumination, which is a per-mission input rather than a platform property.
- Precision figures assume a site mapped in advance to the resolution terrain-relative navigation needs. Precision against an unmapped site is a different problem and is not what this row claims.
- Rows marked Undisclosed sit inside an open trade and are discussed under NDA with operators sizing a mission against them.
Performance specifications are design targets; detail available under NDA.