Ceres Robotics

We are designing, building, and testing efficient landers and robots that make living and working off-world feasible and affordable.

Created: 2019-01-22

Updated: 2024-03-02

Company - Ceres Robotics

Founded
Country: 2017; USA

Funding: ?

Website: Ceres Robotics

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Product/Service - CR3 Rover

Classification: Surface Spacecraft

Category: Commercial Rover
Surface Habitats

Fields: Lunar Rover
Moon

Status: Early stage

First launch: Not announced

Build robots for the construction of facilities and habitats on the Moon, Mars, asteroids and beyond.

We are committed to building additional homes for humanity and our ecosystems on the Moon, Mars and beyond for the rest of history. To borrow words from John Kennedy, we take this goal not because it is easy but because it is hard. It will bring out the best in our creativity, our dreams, and what it means to be human.

The robots and AI systems we build for space are the hammers and nails that will enable this dream and allow it to be affordable. Our spacecraft take us there.

At Ceres Robotics we are building the smart robots to be the shovels and wagons as the tools for the next generation of prospectors and explorers. Our Lander services provide customers with an integrated, safe, affordable, and reliable alternative for end-to-end commercial planetary payload services.

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Product/Service - B5 Lander

Classification: Cargo Transportation & Landers

Category: Commercial Lander

Fields: Moon

Status: Early stage

First launch: Not announced

Build robots for the construction of facilities and habitats on the Moon, Mars, asteroids and beyond.

The robots and AI systems we build for space are the hammers and nails that will enable this dream and allow it to be affordable. Our spacecraft take us there.

Created: 2023-03-04

Updated: 2024-03-02

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Product/Service - 50KW Vertical Solar Array Technology

Classification: Space Utilities

Category: Resources - Energy
Lunar Power Service

Fields: Moon

Status: Development

First launch: Not announced

50KW Vertical Solar Array Technology

In October 2023, selected by NASA to develop a 50-kW reliable and sustainable power source to support lunar habitats, rovers, and construction systems for future robotic and crewed lunar missions under the Lunar Surface 50 kW-Class Solar Array Structures SBIR Phase I topic.

The 50-kW Mobile Solar Truss Mast is the second generation to the 10-kW Vertical Solar Array Technology (VSAT) contracts awarded in 2021 to multiple firms under NASA’s Game Changing Development project.

Ceres is working on structures and mechanisms innovations to ensure compact packaging, safe transportation in space and on the lunar surface, reliable deployment, stable operation while sun tracking, and retraction and relocation as needed. The backbone of Ceres’ 50 kW VSAT is the C-Tower, a deployable-retractable truss-mast to commission solar arrays. C-Tower is lightweight, can extend up to 90 feet high, and retract for relocation if necessary. The overall system can generate up to 60 kW of power.

Created: 2024-01-13

Updated: 2024-03-02

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