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Cislune Inc

[cislune @cislune]

NASA awarded Cislune 2nd place and $200K in Mars to Table for Fresh, Ferment, Reserve: a food system for crop variability, constrained utilities, and rejected batches.

We are excited to move it toward real hardware and operations.

https://t.co/5CpJbmL6Z3

[cislune @cislune]

Cislune summer update: new website, summer interns, icy regolith excavation testing, LunaRecycle finals work, CITA contracting, CARVE rover v2, and CISORT progress.
https://t.co/GNy3Dgwzzy

[cislune @cislune]

At LSIC this week presenting PERDEX in the Tech Showcase.

Percussive excavation + rapid enclosure of intact icy regolith → reduced surface area, reduced heating, reduced volatile loss.

Key step toward scalable lunar resource extraction.

#LSIC #ISRU #MoonBase

[Phil Metzger @DrPhiltill]

Filming the RIDER facility doing tests for @cislune under NASA contract. RIDER = Regolith Interactions for Extraterrestrial Rovers. Cislune is testing the wear of different alloys on lunar rover wheels to inform Artemis rover design.

[cislune @cislune]

Excited to be presenting at the 2nd Lunar Polar Volatiles Conference (Wed–Fri) in Honolulu & virtually! At Cislune we’re showing our work on ultrasonic & percussive ice-mining of lunar regolith to reduce volatile loss at the poles. Looking forward to meetings

[UCF Nursing @UCF_Nursing]

Industry partnership + Interdisciplinary knowledge = Successful space missions. 🚀

@Cislune partnered with @UCF experts to use immersive technology and insights to improve decision-making for future lunar missions.

🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/lWKLHW6VUc

#SpaceU @UCFCECS

[cislune @cislune]

Related to our 2021 NASA STTR on site preparation. Grateful to work with Phil on these and many other innovations over the years.

[Phil Metzger @DrPhiltill]

I was just notified the US Patent Office awarded this patent on a lunar construction technology. It is a method to reduce the energy for sintering lunar soil into a concrete-like material. My hypothesis was that magnetic and microwave susceptibilities should be correlated, since magnetic loss tangent is one of the mechanisms of microwave absorption in minerals. Lunar soil is a mixture of both magnetic and non-magnetic minerals, so magnetic sorting should create isolates that absorb microwaves either more or less, and these isolates can be laid down in layers of varying absorptive to control the depths of microwave power absorption. This is needed to obtain uniform sintering to deeper depths without making the top so hot that it begins vacuum vaporization, AND without wasting excess power at deeper depths. The hypothesis turned out to be correct. Experiments with @cislune proved deep energy and cost savings.

[cislune @cislune]

Heading to Vegas for AIAA #ASCEND2025!
I’ll be sharing how Cislune’s rovers and excavators do site prep for launch‑pad infrastructure and ice mining. @erfrnk there Wed/Thu. Let’s talk #LunarMining #ISRU 🌕

[cislune @cislune]

Excited to announce we’ve also won Phase I of @NASA’s #LunaRecycle Challenge—this time for our lunar recycling hardware prototype!

[cislune @cislune]

We did it! Our #DigitalTwin for lunar recycling just won Phase I of @NASA’s #LunaRecycle Challenge! Check out NASA’s official winner announcement here: https://t.co/o03xunsbln

[cislune @cislune]

Cislune is attending the Space Resources Roundtable (SRR), June 3–6, 2025. We’ll be discussing advances in lunar ISRU, ice-mining robotics, and propellant production. DM us to connect and explore collaboration opportunities.
#SpaceResources #SRR2025 #Cislune #LunarISRU

[cislune @cislune]

The NASA Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is the best theme park in Florida to see and be inspired! #SpaceInspiration

[cislune @cislune]

🚀 Cislune Inc. is proud to sponsor the 2025 NASA Lunabotics Challenge in support of sustainable lunar settlement! #LunarSettlement #Lunabotics2025

[cislune @cislune]

🌕 Finals (May 20–22) on the grounds of the NASA Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Watch live now here ▶️ https://t.co/MICpGLEBX6

[Phil Metzger @DrPhiltill]

If you’d like to see videos of the robots in Lunabotics, @erfrnk posted all of them to the @cislune YouTube channel, here:

https://t.co/J6hXj9lvex

[Phil Metzger @DrPhiltill]

The rover wheel testbed shown here is part of the Exolith Lab and is available for companies to use (reimbursing direct costs). We used it in a recent project with @cislune funded by NASA, "Refuse-To-Get-Stuck Rovers."

[Phil Metzger @DrPhiltill]

@Lusavitch @ryan_9000YT @JackKuhr Yes! This project led by @cislune @erfrnk addresses the issue. See the summary at the bottom. https://t.co/CGCNoFoYW1

[cislune @cislune]

Looking forward to competing on this track next month