We build lunar probes that can collect data anywhere on the Moon at any time.
USAGI SPACE builds lunar penetrators: small probes dropped from orbit that survive the impact and bury themselves in the regolith. Each one measures the ground it lands in.
Deploy enough of them and you get continuous seismic, thermal and water data. We sell that as a commercial service.
Nobody has measured what sits under the lunar surface, and a purpose-built mission takes years. A penetrator needs no landing site and costs far less than a rover.
Orbital instruments see the top few centimeters and nothing below that. Ice, voids and layering stay unmapped.
Steep crater interiors and permanently shadowed regions are closed to crewed missions and rovers alike. A penetrator just gets dropped in.
The mothership carries the penetrators into orbit around the Moon.
Separation modules are released, then brake as they descend over the target site.
Penetrators free-fall the rest of the way. They bury themselves in the regolith and start measuring.
An impact-survivable probe that senses the subsurface from inside the ground. It carries a TDL (tunable diode laser) sensor to look for water.
A lunar orbiter that places penetrators on their targets and relays their data back to Earth.
We combine ground truth from our own penetrators with every surface and subsurface dataset of the Moon we can get. The result is one complete map of the lunar subsurface.
Moonquake catalogs, subsurface temperature, regolith properties, TDL water detection. Available as a one-time snapshot or as ongoing monitoring.
We survey candidate landing and construction sites before you commit to one.
Payload slots on our penetrator and mothership missions. Shock-tolerant payloads welcome.
Custom sensor integration, plus joint research with agencies, universities and corporate R&D.
The first penetrators fly as ride-share payloads and prove they survive impact on the Moon.
Our mothership drops penetrators across one region, which gives us the first data we can sell.
Enough penetrators for continuous moonquake monitoring, plus subsurface and water maps detailed enough to pick a construction site.
The same penetrators and mothership go to asteroids and Mars.
Phase timing and scope are public in outline. Funding plans, ride-share partners and the technical critical path go to partners and investors directly.
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