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FORGEDefense-Grade Manufacturing & TestNEXUSAI Operations & Cislunar Space Domain AwarenessHERMESDynamic Space OperationsWIRESResilient PNT & CommunicationsATLASPrecision Lunar Logistics
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Pillar 03 · HERMES

HERMES

Dynamic Space Operations

Most spacecraft are launched into an orbit and spend their lives defending the propellant to stay there. HERMES is built on the opposite premise: vehicles and operations designed to move, so that maneuver, logistics, and servicing become services a customer can task rather than missions a customer must invent.

Sequenced pillar. Orbit services begin on first defense contracts.

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The problem

A static satellite is a fact. A maneuvering one is a capability.

The domain is becoming dynamic: objects that move, inspect, and reposition are now normal in the environment where U.S. and allied assets operate. Responding to that world takes more than watching it. It takes vehicles that can maneuver without regret, deliver mass across orbits, and reach assets that need inspection or support.

Maneuver

Vehicles built to move: repositioning, inspection approaches, and transfers between orbits, flown without treating every burn as a once-in-a-mission event.

Logistics

Delivery and positioning of payloads and consumables across Earth orbit and cislunar space: mass where it is needed, when it is needed.

Servicing

Rendezvous and proximity operations in service of extending, inspecting, and supporting assets that were never designed to be reached again.

Our approach

Operations as the product, gated on contracts.

HERMES is a mission line, not a single vehicle. The engineering center of gravity is guidance, navigation, and control: rendezvous, proximity operations, and efficient transfer, developed against the awareness picture NEXUS maintains and the connectivity WIRES provides.

Like every step outward in the company, HERMES is sequenced. Development proceeds now; missions enter service when defense contracts fund them. We do not build ahead of the customer, and we say so.

Mission Profile
Design target
Mission setManeuver, logistics, and servicing
RegimeEarth orbit through cislunar space
Operating modelRecurring missions on contract, not one-off demos
AutonomyGNC for rendezvous, proximity operations, and transfer
SequencingEnters service on first defense contracts

Vehicle configuration and performance detail available under NDA to qualified customers.

Open roles on this program

All open positions
Chief Systems Engineer
Engineering · Colorado · $220K to $300K base
Lead GNC Engineer
Engineering · Colorado · $170K to $220K base
Head of Government Business Development & Capture
Business Development · Washington, DC Metro · $200K to $280K base
Grants & Proposals Writer
Business Development · Colorado · $90K to $130K base
HERMES in the sequence

The step between watching the domain and working in it.

Awareness earns the right to operate; operations earn the right to build farther out. HERMES is the middle of the sequence: funded by defense contracts, informed by NEXUS, connected by WIRES.

NEXUS
AI Operations & Cislunar Space Domain Awareness

Dynamic operations run on the awareness picture; HERMES missions consume NEXUS products and feed observations back.

WIRES
Resilient PNT & Communications

Maneuvering vehicles need PNT and communications that hold up when the geometry changes.

ATLAS
Precision Lunar Logistics

The operations discipline proven with HERMES is what makes precision lunar delivery credible.

Planning for a dynamic domain?

Mission concepts and teaming discussions are available under NDA to qualified government and industry partners.

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