American Space Engineering · Brookings, SD
American innovation enabling the return to the Moon, engineered in Brookings, South Dakota.
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The problem
250,000 miles from the nearest supply chain.
Before water is extracted or oxygen produced, lunar soil has to move. Abrasive dust and one-sixth gravity break every assumption built on Earth. Conventional machinery clogs, jams, and wears out.
The system
Rego-LIFT
A modular conveyor that feeds extraterrestrial processing plants, validated in discrete-element simulation and proven in vacuum with LHS-1E simulant.
>600 kg/hr
TRL 5
NASA SBIR Phase II
The trajectory
From a student venture to NASA Phase II.
- 2023NASA Break the Ice & RASC-AL: concept validated in competition.
- 2024SBIR Phase I: feasibility study, achieving TRL 4.
- 2025SBIR Phase II: scaling toward a full demonstrator.
- NextFull-scale 10-meter demonstration.
The destination
Where the ice is: the lunar south pole.
Permanently shadowed craters near the pole hold water ice, the key to oxygen and propellant made off-Earth. Rego-LIFT moves the regolith that makes extracting it possible.
◢ Rego-LIFT // south pole render
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Engineered in America · Brookings, South Dakota
