Pillar 04 · WIRES

WIRES

Resilient PNT & Communications

Everything operating beyond Earth needs to know where it is, what time it is, and how to get data home, and the systems that answer those questions today were built for orbits close to Earth and a benign signal environment. WIRES is the resilient PNT and communications layer for everything else: LEO to the lunar surface, delivered as a service.

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The problem

GPS ends. Missions don't.

Contested environments degrade the signals defense systems assume, and beyond geostationary orbit those signals barely exist at all. Every mission that operates there today carries its own bespoke answer, built once, flown once. WIRES replaces the bespoke answer with shared infrastructure: resilient navigation, timing, and communications that a mission subscribes to instead of reinventing.

Resilient PNT

Position, navigation, and timing that does not fold when GPS is degraded or absent: alternative signals and onboard solutions for the regimes GPS was never built to serve.

Communications Relay

Persistent links between Earth, orbiting assets, and the lunar surface, including the far side and shadowed regions with no direct line of sight to Earth.

Ground Segment

Antennas, scheduling, and mission operations connecting customer spacecraft to the network and to their teams on the ground.

Service Delivery

Connectivity and navigation bought as recurring service per mission or by subscription, the way operators buy connectivity on Earth.

Our approach

A utility, engineered for the hard cases first.

The places worth operating are the hardest to reach by signal: jammed environments near Earth, the lunar far side, the permanently shadowed craters that hold the water ice. WIRES is designed against those cases, because a network that only works when conditions are friendly is not infrastructure.

Interfaces are published and interoperable with emerging lunar network standards, so government and commercial users plug in rather than rebuild.

Network Scope

Design target

SpanLEO through cislunar space to the lunar surface

PNTNavigation and timing independent of continuous ground tracking

Hard casesGPS-degraded regimes, lunar far side, shadowed terrain

StandardsBuilt toward emerging lunar network interoperability

DeliveryPer-mission contact or subscription coverage

Coverage, link budgets, and service terms available under NDA to qualified customers.

Open roles on this program

All open positions

Chief Systems Engineer

Engineering · Colorado · $220K to $300K base

WIRES in the sequence

The layer everything else reports through.

Awareness, operations, and lunar logistics all depend on being reachable and knowing where they are. WIRES is co-designed with the pillars that consume it, not bought from a vendor after the fact.

NEXUS

AI Operations & Cislunar Space Domain Awareness

The network is also a sensor: link geometry and contact data feed the awareness picture.

HERMES

Dynamic Space Operations

Dynamic operations depend on navigation and links that hold through maneuvers.

ATLAS

Precision Lunar Logistics

Precision lunar delivery needs PNT and relay at the surface, where Earth-based systems run out.

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Coverage, link budgets, and service terms are available under NDA to qualified government and industry partners.

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