Created: 2019-01-22
Updated: 2024-01-13
Company - Ceres Robotics
Product/Service - CR3 Rover
- Classification
- Surface Spacecraft
- Category
- Commercial Rover
Surface Habitats
- Fields
- Lunar Rover
Moon
- Status
- Early stage
- First launch
- Not announced
Product/Service - B5 Lander
- Classification
- Cargo Transportation & Landers
- Category
- Commercial Lander
- Fields
- Moon
- Status
- Early stage
- First launch
- Not announced
Ceres Robotics, Inc. Completes Preliminary Design Review of B5 Lunar Lander, 2024-05-16.
- Ceres B5 is a mission configurable lunar lander capable of delivering up to 500 kg of payloads to the lunar surface and provides those payloads with power, data, communications, and robotic manipulations, and can deploy payloads to lunar orbit or the surface to perform their goals.
- Our team of experienced engineers, designers, mission operations specialists, and partners have been developing the B5 lander since mid-2020.
Created: 2023-03-04
Updated: 2024-07-08
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
Ceres Robotics, Inc. Announces “MoonPower Lunar Grid” and wins NASA Contract, 2024-04-26.
- Selected by NASA to develop further one of the system’s key components, a deployable-retractable truss-mast to commission 50-kW-class solar arrays on the lunar surface.
- MoonPower is a lunar power generation and distribution system to support continuous robotic and human operations on the Moon. It is designed to deliver reliable and sustainable power to support lunar habitats, rovers, and construction systems for future robotic and crewed lunar missions. It is comprised of a networked array of 50 kW-Class Vertical Solar Array System called C-Towers. Earlier this week, Ceres was awarded NASA SBIR Phase II contract to further the development of key components of the C-Tower.
- “C-Tower is an affordable, lightweight, and scalable solution to meeting the power demands of future lunar missions,” said Udit Shah, Principal Investigator of this SBIR and technical program lead at Ceres. “It can generate 60 kW peak power and is scalable to generate more than 240 kW peak power. We plan to sequentially establish MoonPower for multiple customers using multiple C-Towers to meet the medium-term and long-term lunar polar power demands.”
- The backbone of C-Tower, which Ceres will continue to develop under the SBIR Phase II contract is a deployable-retractable lightweight truss-mast to commission solar arrays. The truss-mast extends to 23.5 m from the surface and is scalable to extend to more than 50 m. As part of the SBIR Phase II contract, Ceres has partnered with Voyager Space Exploration Systems to prototype and test the C-Tower’s mast under lunar gravity environment (1/6 g).
Created: 2024-01-13
Updated: 2024-07-09
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