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// RESEARCH PROGRAMS & LABS

Sequencing the long arc.

The research that turns horizons into roadmaps. Each track states its objective, its honest horizon, and where it partners.

// RESEARCH TRACKS

Planetary science

NEAR

Characterize candidate worlds — geology, climate, and volatiles.

Collaborators: TBC

Astrobiology

RESEARCH

Biosignatures, habitability limits, and pioneer-organism research.

Collaborators: TBC

Planetary engineering

LONG

Climate digital twins, atmosphere and albedo modeling, shielding.

Collaborators: TBC

Autonomy & robotics

NEAR

Off-world autonomous construction and swarm robotics, with Segal Development.

With Segal Development

Deep-space propulsion

MID

Nuclear-thermal, nuclear-electric, and solar-electric propulsion.

Collaborators: TBC

Life support

MID

Closed-loop ECLSS and controlled-environment agriculture.

Collaborators: TBC

Sequencing the long arc.

The advanced-programs research that feeds the fleet sits alongside this work.

Aerospace research