Our Projects

Orbital Can Station

Orbital Can System is a large scale space station module, which can be launched on Starship or equivalent Heavy Lift Rockets

Aerospace 3d Printing

Providing mult-material printing to support manufacturing efforts for NA projects while enabling innovative design

MDRS FARMM & SSAM

MDRS Robotics for Mars is a pair of projects run for the Mars Society. We'll be delivering two robot systems for scouting and autonomous farming to a research station in Utah by Christmas.

mars-moon project

Designing the means for a Mars colony to export products profitably to Earth as a much-needed income source. Presenting at the Mars Society convention this October.

Space Race

The Space Race project is a forum meant to discuss the evolution of space exploration and settlement.

Red Stratos

Introducing Foothold, a deep survival, resource management and political strategy game simulating the first mission to establish a colony on Mars.

A guide to assist inspiring designers with creating realistic architecture beyond earth. This guide should help designers think freely of what is possible, what to avoid and how to think of designing in completely foreign environments.

OCS Supply Capsule

The OCS resupply vehicle will be able to deliver experiments, science, tools, and fuel to the orbital can station. The spacecraft can also act as a tug for missions to deep space.

Carbon-Capture

Developing unique approaches to capturing carbon from the environment for a healthier environment and cleaner industry.

Media

Coordinating podcasts, social media, project media, and enabling NA to show the world what we can do.

Orbital Can

The Orbital CAN System is a low cost space station concept, consisting of interconnecting modules to deliver a wide range of user options. Used together the CAN System provides a complete station with all the necessary equipment and components to satisfy a wide range of orbital needs.

Due to commonality in design components over a wide range of uses, costs can be decreased through large volume production that is not currently available to existing technologies. Reducing cost to these high value components not only increases value to the end user, but also allows more entrants into a currently expensive market. Common parts allow for multi-national space stations to be berthed together, allowing crew and equipment a familiar environment from day one.

The Orbital CAN System strives to open up the market to more industries and countries while increasing co-operation and quality.

MDRS FARMM

FARMM is a low-cost autonomous system for producing fresh crops to support human missions to Mars. The system is capable of planting, feeding, weeding, and harvesting with a single power & water input.

Opening the way to extended human missions and settlement off-world requires a sustainable, low-cost solution to food production. autonomous farming solutions save mission time and extend mission duration by taking up less precious space and weight onboard transit spacecraft, instead allowing for other mission support infrastructure to be taken.

MDRS SSAM

SSAM paves the way for informed mission planning by delivering detailed reports of target areas autonomously, quickly, and with a high degree of redundancy.

Each successful step into the cosmos has been preceded by countless hours and millions of dollars of research and planning. With the SSAM system, mission planners can deploy swarms of autonomous bots cheaply and easily to provide geological information about the surface, from terrain height and difficulty to mineral analysis of the soil.

Red Stratos

Casting the effort to settle Mars in a fun new light through gaming. Our first title, Foothold, is a deep survival, resource management and political strategy game simulating the first mission to establish a colony on Mars.

On this first step to a new home on Mars, each of you commands a team of specialists. You worked hard to get here, and each of you has Secret Agendas and a vision for the future of this planet. To succeed, you must be generous with your neighbors, guard your own supplies, and move forward on your secret plans. If you can make it to the first resupply, your influence will decide the future of Mars! If you die, well, you’ll be dead.

Carbon Capture

Nexus Aurora's entry into the XPRIZE Carbon Capture Challenge, in association with EMT (Earth Matters Too). The goal of this project is to make carbon capture technology efficient and affordable.

Exploring various existing and innovative means of capturing environmental Carbon Dioxide and other pollutants for storage and use. CCC aims to help the space industry by providing sustainable production resources while cleaning up the environment.

Aerospace 3D Printing

Providing multi-material 3D printing to support manufacturing efforts for NA projects and improve the overall design of the model through real-world prototyping and testing.

Many design ideas can work in a modeling software, but how will you know if those ideas will work in a real-life scenario? That’s where we come in, we turn your project’s design ideas into reality through 3d printing. From there, we can perform tests to help ensure that the part designed will work as intended in real life.

Mars-Moon Project

The Mars Moons Project is dedicated to designing the means for a Mars colony to export products profitably to Earth as a much needed income source. Current project work focuses on putting together a presentation for the Mars Society convention this October.

Deimos, the second moon of Mars, is the most economically interesting extraterrestrial body in the solar system from the perspective of space-based manufacturing for export to Earth. It not only makes the most commercially viable manufacturing processes easier than on Mars’ surface (and compared to the Moon it’s better still!) but it provides an order of magnitude improvement in fuel economy using only SpaceX Starships as transport.

Architecture Hand-Guide

The purpose of the Architects Handguide to Mars is to establish the real rules and constraints for design on Mars, followed by possible solutions. The book can be far reaching, touching on topics such as stair tread heights or plumbing. And this will be determined by the enthusiasm and consistent effort by the authors.

Space Race

The Space Race project is focused on developing a platform for organisations and research centers who wish to learn and share knowledge about a durable and peaceful conquest of space.

No platform currently provides aggregated data and analysis on the space race that could be used by policymakers and researchers to promote a durable and peaceful conquest of space. By tracking human activities in space and by providing data on the performance of public and private organizations competing and collaborating in the space industry, the project aims to develop a leaderboard to track the evolution of the conquest of space.

OCS Supply Capsule

NA Media

Making the efforts of space development known to everyone.

When it comes to exploring space, there is an almost endless supply of passion and effort. NA media’s job is to take the output of that effort and make it accessible to the world through podcasts, publishing, and social media. We coordinate the products of NA projects for the public.