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.
The demand is published from three directions at once. Positioning, navigation, and timing is the largest space-enabled market on Earth: 77 percent of a global downstream market ESA estimates at 489 billion euros for 2025. The Space Force's Objective Force 2040 writes commercial partners and allied constellations into its next-generation resilient-PNT architecture, and demands operations that continue through degraded and denied signal environments. And NASA's published lunar targets ask for better than 500 megabits per second of relay and for navigation and timing service at the south pole. One network answers all three. WIRES is built to operate it.
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.
EVERLIGHT: a network you plug into, not a program you rebuild.
Constanellis means constant light, named for the peaks of eternal light at the lunar south pole. EVERLIGHT is that standard made into a service: a link that does not drop, a signal that does not sleep, navigation that does not blink. The network is architected as a service from the first node: relay and navigation above, terminals at the edge, one operations floor behind it. A customer plugs into the network the way a phone finds the nearest tower, and the network grows node by node as the lunar economy does.
Relay & Navigation Nodes
Smallsat-class nodes in cislunar and lunar orbits carrying the relay links and the navigation signal. Deployment starts small and scales with demand. Coverage priority goes to the hard cases first: the south polar region and the far side, the places where a direct link to Earth does not exist.
User Terminals
Modular terminals for orbiters, landers, rovers, and crewed systems, designed toward the emerging lunar interoperability standards so a customer can roam across compliant networks rather than marry one vendor. The terminal is the subscription card, not the product.
Ground Segment
Earth-side apertures, scheduling, and network management connecting the space nodes to each customer's own mission operations. Customers keep their ops floor. We keep the network between them and their spacecraft up.
Network Operations
One operations floor running the network as a utility: continuous connection between Earth and the people and assets in lunar orbit and on the surface, and positioning that tells a surface team exactly where it is, what is around it, and how to get back.
ORBITS, DATA RATES, AND LINK BUDGETS ARE STATED UNDER NDA. ARCHITECTURE SHOWN IS THE DESIGN OF RECORD.
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