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Explore PLAZAIC’s lunar concepts, resource tools and interactive demonstrations.

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ISRU

  • Advanced Lunar Resources Map

    Explore lunar imagery, regolith composition, and returned samples from holographic mission control, or operate a rover at the teleoperation console.

  • Simple ALRM

    Use the original Advanced Lunar Resources Map in a simple view: rotate the Moon, inspect resource layers, explore measured terrain, and compare returned samples.

  • Lunar Resources Globe

    Browse lunar imagery, measured LOLA terrain, returned samples, and illustrative oxide maps. Import numerical grids for lunar resource readouts.

  • Pyrolytic Deoxidization

    Explore PLAZAIC’s lunar regolith processing plant concept, with crucible carts, a Pyrolytic Deoxidizer, distillation stations, and solar concentrators.

  • Local Manufacturing

    Explore PLAZAIC’s lunar manufacturing concept: recovered metal wire, laser deposition 3D printers, CERBERUS components, and local rover assembly.

Cislunar

  • Moon Base One

    Explore PLAZAIC’s lunar base concept: regolith processing, local manufacturing, CERBERUS rover assembly, CHARON fleet control, and crew habitats.

  • Lunar Base Architectures

    Compare equatorial bases, polar ridges, and Abdulezer twin-base concepts, with candidate regions and illustrative crew and resupply flight paths.

  • Cislunar Economy

    Explore lunar oxygen uses and an illustrated Earth–Moon transport cycle, with orbital refueling, a transfer vehicle, and a lunar cargo shuttle.

  • Moon Base Economics

    Model how lunar metals, local manufacturing, field trials and deployment contracts could earn revenue for a Moon base. Adjust demand, capacity, costs and pricing.

  • Lunar Commodities Program

    Run five lunar production lines, grow commodity stockpiles, sell into a fluctuating simulated market, and fulfill competing contracts in a playable PLAZAIC prototype.

Robotics

  • Constructible Robotics

    Explore PLAZAIC’s constructible lunar rover concept: compact delivery, assembly on the Moon, and removable control cores sheltered during lunar night.

  • Centralized Control

    Explore how PLAZAIC’s CHARON concept coordinates a lunar rover fleet while individual rovers handle movement, tools, and local safety functions.

  • CHARON Deployment

    Watch the CHARON deployment concept: landing, crew arrival, and three crew pairs unpacking twelve CERBERUS rover kits, solar rolls, and wiring.

  • Rover Teleoperation

    Drive a lunar rover through ten checkpoints with delayed commands and camera feedback, then try CHARON assistance in PLAZAIC’s teleoperation demo.

  • Rover Concept Lab

    Design a custom rover, watch its structural parts being printed and assembled, then drive the same vehicle through an illustrative Martian test yard.

  • Regolith Decontamination

    Explore PLAZAIC’s RDDA airlock concept: crew and rover spraydown, ceiling misters, regolith collection, water recovery, and pressure-isolated transit.

Company

  • Company

    Meet PLAZAIC, a Pittsburgh lunar technology company developing constructible rovers, regolith oxygen extraction, and airlock dust removal.