Lunar & Cislunar Transportation

ATLAS

Advanced Terrain-Landing Autonomous System

ATLAS is the transportation layer of the cislunar stack — a family of landers and orbital transfer vehicles that put mass on the lunar surface and into any cislunar orbit. The exploration chapter is closed; the coordinates exist. What comes next is development, and it begins with getting there, precisely and on a cadence.

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The opening

The Moon is mapped. The resources are catalogued. The road is missing.

Decades of missions confirmed what the lunar south pole holds — water ice in the permanently shadowed craters, rim sites with near-continuous sunlight, the conditions for a sustained presence. The data is not in dispute. What does not yet exist is the transportation to act on it. ATLAS is built to be that road.

Water ice

Confirmed in the south-pole permanently shadowed regions — feedstock for a propellant economy.

89.9°S

Shackleton Crater — rim sunlit ~89% of the lunar day; a prime site for a sustained outpost.

354 hrs

Length of the lunar night ATLAS-C is built to survive and keep operating through.

GEO → surface

ATLAS delivers mass across the full cislunar range, precisely and autonomously.

Platform · ATLAS-C

The lander built to survive and keep working.

ATLAS-C is the foundational surface-delivery platform — engineered from first principles to land precisely in hazardous polar terrain and to survive the 354-hour lunar night, so it can keep operating where no lander has run continuously. It is the difference between visiting the surface and staying on it.

Precision matters: infrastructure-class cargo has to arrive where it is needed, autonomously, with no one on the loop. ATLAS-C is built to the tempo of modern acquisition and to a recurring delivery cadence, not a single flag-and-footprints mission.

Capability Profile

ClassInfrastructure-scale lander

PayloadSurface-delivery, modular accommodation

PrecisionTerrain-relative navigation, meter-class landing

Night survivalEngineered for the full 354-hour lunar night

AutonomyHazard-relative descent and landing

Mission windowLate-decade and recurring

Detailed performance specifications available under NDA.

Orbital Vehicle · HERMES

The cislunar logistics link.

HERMES — the High-efficiency Relay and Maneuvering Execution System — is the orbital transfer and maneuvering vehicle that moves payloads between Earth-departure, cislunar orbits, and the approach corridors ATLAS-C lands from. It positions mass precisely and serves as an orbital relay node, keeping surface assets connected back to Earth.

Like the rest of the stack, HERMES is dual-use by design: civil delivery and relay in the near term, with hosting capacity for federal payloads in the period that follows.

Capability Profile

RoleOrbital transfer & maneuvering vehicle

FunctionTLI → lunar orbit → controlled delivery

ServicePayload positioning and orbital relay

UseCivil and federal, on a recurring cadence

ATLAS in the stack

Transportation is the first layer. It does not work alone.

ATLAS moves the mass. The rest of the stack makes it useful once it arrives — and owning all four layers is what lets Constanellis offer assured, end-to-end cislunar access.

WIRES

Communications & Navigation

What ATLAS delivers stays connected and knows where it is.

NEXUS

Mission Intelligence & Domain Awareness

ATLAS-delivered sensors feed the awareness layer — and it tasks them back.

FORGE

In-Space Resources & Manufacturing

The resources ATLAS reaches become propellant and material.

Building toward the surface.

Capability briefings are available under NDA to qualified government and industry partners.

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