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ANTARISHQ Research
The hardware of destiny.
Launch vehicles, habitats, life-support loops, and autonomous spacecraft — engineered end-to-end for a species that has decided to leave.
Our mission
To engineer the vehicles, habitats, and control systems that make a permanent human presence beyond Earth not just possible, but routine.
SpaceX has now flown Falcon 9 first stages 20+ times each; Starship targets full and rapid reuse at Saturn-V scale. Cost-to-LEO has fallen from ~$54,500/kg in the Shuttle era to under $1,500/kg today, and could reach $100/kg with fully reusable super-heavy vehicles. Every downstream pillar depends on this curve continuing.
The ISS ECLSS recycles ~98% of water and 42% of oxygen. Lunar and Mars surface habitats require 99%+ closure, radiation shielding (regolith or water), and 500-day sortie autonomy. ANTARISHQ's systems grants target ISRU-linked habitats — inflatables anchored to 3D-printed regolith shells — as the near-term primitive.
Round-trip light-time to Mars is 6–44 minutes. Real teleoperation is impossible; onboard autonomy is mandatory. Our engineering program funds open-source flight software (F Prime, cFS), formally-verified guidance, and cross-mission fault-management frameworks that turn every mission's lessons into the next mission's baseline.
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