United Space Structures

Developing Lunar Infrastructure for exploration and commerce that is scalable on the Moon, Mars, and beyond to enable a sustainable human presence for a spacefaring civilization.

Created: 2020-05-23

Updated: 2024-03-03

Founded
Country
2009
USA
Funding
?
Website
United Space Structures
Social
United Space Structures

Product/Service

Classification
Surface Habitats & Structures
Category
Surface Habitats
In-Space Assembly
In-Orbit Data Storage
Lunar Data Center
Fields
Moon
Surface
Large Space Structures
Mars
Additive Manufacturing (3D printing)
Status
Early stage
First launch
Not announced

As of early 2023, the 4 listed fields on the website are:

Our mission is to build a large self-sustaining facility that will house hundreds of people and to start construction by 2026. United Space Structures (USS) has developed a unique construction process for building very large permanent structures within lunar lava tubes. The advantage of building within lava tubes is that the lava tube provides protection from radiation and meteor strikes and so the habitat structure does not require to be hardened from these elements. The structures only need to create an atmospheric structurally stable enclosure that is thermally insulated.

A robotics company for manufacturing and construction in space using 3D printing/additive manufacturing.

United Space Structures (USS) wants to build data centers on the moon for Earth-based backups and for lunar activities.

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