Qualification posture before rendering
How specifications earn credibility here
Margins, tested. Limits, stated.
Thermal margin: 18% at 393 K
Passive radiator sizing accounts for regolith albedo variance and diurnal cycling.
Landing-load margin: 0%
No margin available. Redundancy provided by secondary load path; failure mode: controlled collapse of secondary strut with mission-survivable deceleration.
Positioning study: 15° drift / 25° limit
Ring-laser gyro and accelerometer drift over lunar day.
Dust ingress into motor bearings: no qualified mitigation yet.
Regolith particle size and electrostatic adhesion remain the open problem. Current seal design rejected in thermal-vacuum dust chamber testing.
Daylight power margin: 24%
Power-regulation margin consumed by harness drop and connector contact resistance.
How to read this dossier
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Claim meets margin
Every capability is stated with its documented margin and the assumption it rests on. A thermal-budget claim includes operating hours, regolith albedo, and the design margin applied. No capability stated without a number attached.
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Qualified, in-progress, or not yet
Each subsystem is marked by its qualification posture: what has been tested to specification, what is currently under analysis, and what remains future work. No margin assumes future qualification.
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Failure modes are named
We describe how each subsystem can fail and what redundancy or operational limits address it. Dust tolerance, thermal cycling, and single-point-of-failure risks are stated plainly, not buried.
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Interface boundaries are drawn
Integration requires knowing where the platform begins and ends: mechanical load cases, electrical power draw, avionics protocol requirements, and thermal rejection duty. We publish ours; you bring yours.
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Self-qualify before you contact
Use this dossier to test whether your mission profile aligns with our documented limits. If it does, the conversation that follows is engineering-to-engineering, not sales-to-prospect.