The same physics, pushed further.
Our R&D is not separate from our engineering: it is the same volumetric-microwave, process and simulation capability, applied to problems no one has solved yet. What we prove in the lab feeds directly into the plants we deliver, and the discipline of building high-power, safety-critical hardware for mining carries straight into our space work.
High-power microwave technology
Over more than eight years we have designed, built and field-deployed some of the highest-power industrial microwave systems in operation, multi-hundred-kilowatt 915 MHz plants that heat mineral-rich rock volumetrically to induce thermal cracking ahead of mechanical excavation.
The same physics, hardware and safe-operation discipline now anchor our space and recycling research: volumetric dielectric heating, articulated waveguide applicators, Faraday shielding and closed-loop thermal control.
Lunar surface construction
A microwave method for converting loose lunar regolith into solid, load-bearing surfaces directly on the Moon, using only in-situ material, with no binders, water or aggregate shipped from Earth.
Regolith’s iron- and titanium-bearing minerals couple strongly to microwave fields, so energy is deposited throughout the volume and the material sinters and melts into a coherent solid without contact, tolerant of hard vacuum and abrasive, charged dust. Our first trial achieved coalescence to 280 mm in a single three-minute 915 MHz exposure.
Space-environment simulation & testing
A deep-shaft environmental chamber that reproduces the conditions space hardware must survive, hard vacuum, extreme thermal cycling, altered gravity and radiation, so products can be qualified against representative lunar and orbital conditions in-house.
Operating our own test facility closes the develop–test–iterate loop before any flight commitment, and lets us qualify both our own systems and partners’ hardware. Separately patent pending.
Recycling & circular-process systems
Flow-sheets for recovering value from secondary and waste streams: beneficiation of complex feeds, developed from laboratory through pilot scale and into full circular-process design for the resource sector.
The same microwave, process and simulation tools we apply to ore and regolith carry directly into closing material loops: drying, separation, breakage reduction and recovery of secondary streams.
