Stone Aerospace is developing LUX, a revolutionary sub-selenian space exploration vehicle. It is a hovering robotic vehicle designed to breach inaccessible lunar lava tubes, such as the Mare Tranquillitatis Pit. Acting as the lunar equivalent of an aerial drone, LUX explores subsurface voids unreachable by traditional wheeled rovers or ballistic hoppers. The project leverages Stone Aerospace’s deep heritage in deploying autonomous underwater vehicles in Earth’s most extreme truly unexplored environments.

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Stone Aerospace is a Texas-based company dedicated to the exploration and commercialization of the frontiers we know of and the discovery of the ones yet to come. We develop the tools needed to explore the frontier, to survive and work in it, to characterize it, and to exploit it. Our people are both seasoned expeditionary scientists and explorers—who personally use the equipment we design in demanding environments—and best-of-class engineers and coders. We are novel, lean, fast moving, and cutting-edge. We strive to change the way things are done, to cut red tape, and get reliable hardware into the field rapidly. Our business structure and extensive partnerships allow us to swiftly assemble extraordinary multi-disciplinary teams to tackle complex high-tech projects. We specialize in autonomous systems, mobile robotics, fiber-tethered and Wi-Fi controlled vehicles, re-entry vehicles, novel spacecraft architectures, propulsion, structures and dynamics, manned systems, closed-cycle life support, spacesuit PLSS and spacecraft ECLSS systems, 3D mapping (both laser radar and high resolution sonar), guidance and navigation systems, auto-docking systems (ladar, optical, gps-aided, imu-aided, dvl-aided, sonar, usbl), embedded devices, high density power systems, head-up displays, and smart devices.