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Rocket Systems / Rocket Hardware
A modular rocket hardware program focused on rapid development, manufacturability, and mission-configurable system design.
The Problem
The FARSIDE approach
FARSIDE applies rapid, tooling-light manufacturing to rocket hardware, so the program can move from design to physical article quickly and often. Fabrication articles exist as physical hardware today, and the design is developed for mission-configurable use.
Designed For
Modular rocket hardware in active fabrication
Rapid design-build-test iteration
Manufacturability as a first-order design requirement
Concept Mission Thread
FARSIDE is rocket hardware in fabrication. The FARSIDE → RELAY concept examines how that hardware layer and the ASTERISM relay architecture could form a focused cislunar mission chain, as design intent, not a service.
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FARSIDE rocket hardware in fabrication, the physical layer of the concept.
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A notional pathway from hardware to an appropriate operating region. Design intent only.
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A conceptual ASTERISM-governed node designed to decide on board when, how, and where to move data.
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Data designed to be held under custody through occlusion and forwarded when a link opens.
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The concept objective: trusted data movement for lunar-adjacent operations, including where no direct line of sight to Earth exists.
FARSIDE → RELAY is an illustrative mission concept describing design intent across developmental DERECHO hardware and software. It does not represent a fielded, contracted, or operational service.
System in development. Configurations, capabilities, and imagery shown are developmental, illustrative, or notional and are subject to change.