Programs01 · Manufacturing · Industrial base
FORGE
Fabrication, Origination, Refinement, Grade Engineering
American precision manufacturing, from the factory floor to the lunar surface.
Precision hardware built to print and qualified under vacuum across temperature today, and the process control that additive manufacturing and in-situ resource use need before anyone builds on the Moon.
- Status
- Accepting work
- Work
- Build to print · Inspection · Qualification
- In development
- Additive manufacturing · In-situ resource use
- Environment
- Vacuum, across temperature
- Buyers
- Primes · Constellation builders · Program offices
The problem
Build it here. Then build it there.
The country that settles the Moon will be the one that can still make things. Precision manufacturing has thinned out of the American industrial base, and the flight hardware that does get built routinely waits for chamber time. FORGE rebuilds that capacity: parts built to print, measured in vacuum across the temperatures they will see and shipped with their record. The same discipline is what building on the Moon demands. A part printed from lunar feedstock, far from any inspection lab, is only as good as the process control and metrology behind it. FORGE develops both on the ground first.
Capabilities
- 01
Build to print
Precision optical and mechanical components, from mounts and housings to assemblies for terminals and sensors, produced to drawing with acceptance criteria agreed up front.
- 02
Dimensional and optical inspection
Metrology against your acceptance criteria, with the record that ties every article to its requirement.
- 03
Thermal vacuum characterization
Optical performance measured under vacuum across temperature, the regime where ground testing usually stops short.
- 04
Additive manufacturing, in development
Metal additive processes held to flight standards: parameters controlled, every build measured, every part traceable to the build that made it.
- 05
Building with lunar material, in development
Process control and metrology for manufacturing with in-situ resources, from regolith feedstock to a finished, inspected part, proven in terrestrial demonstration before it goes to the surface.
- 06
The measurement record
Every article ships with its data. Over time those records become a reference corpus for how hardware performs in space.
Build-out targets
Performance
| Pressure | Ambient to 1×10⁻⁶ Torr under thermal vacuum |
|---|---|
| Temperature | −180 °C to +150 °C at the test article |
| Wavefront | Interferometric wavefront error to λ/20 RMS at 632.8 nm |
| Traceability | Unbroken calibration chain to national standards |
| Uncertainty | A stated budget with every measured value |
Quotes
Part, quantity, environment, need date. Keep the first message non-sensitive; controlled data moves through an agreed channel.
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