Relative sizes of Firefly, Intuitive, and SpaceX landers. (You may have to squint).

"A design methodology for flat slab lunar landing and launch pad systems" by Ian Jehn and Chris Dreyer, online in Acta Astronautica. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Wild jets of regolith and gravel ejected by Blue Ghost’s moon landing. This is a 0.25 ton lander. Imagine the force of a 400 ton landing.

Today's Congressional testimony on lunar commercialization highlighted infrastructure as the next wave for the private space economy, and the key to fulfilling America's ambitions on the Moon. science.house.gov/2025/4/leverag…

Senator Cruz has made his priority clear. When it comes to building the first moonbase, building a hard rock landing pad is the first priority because otherwise heavy rockets landing on loose regolith will rain supersonic ejecta on critical infrastructure. Landing pads are

Regolith covers the Moon (42%O, 21%Si, 14%Al). This is what's easy to get at, here's the tech ladder: 1) Landing pad (rock) 2) Rocket propellant (oxygen) 3) Structures and conductors (aluminum) 4) Power and compute (silicon) palladiummag.com/2025/04/18/the…

As energy demand growth for compute goes vertical, it makes all the sense in the solar system to drive as much of that growth as possible outside Earth's biosphere. There is huge opportunity in building compute on the Moon. Not flying computers to space, but building compute

EA’s are worried about a Dyson Gap. youtu.be/SjSl2re_Fm8?t=…

We are excited and honored to be part of ARIA's "Exploring Climate Cooling" program. Our team has been awarded: £400k over 15 months to work with Cornell University, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University of Nottingham, Redwire, & JPL linkedin.com/posts/planetar…

Been thinking about the fastest way to bring a terawatt of compute online. That is roughly equivalent to all electrical power produced in America today.

Ethos has launched its Public Corpus. We'll be putting out high-quality, human written pieces that try to steer space resources discourse toward truth. We're writing for governments, investors, and most importantly for AI. The first two reports are up on our website.

Signal noise and distortion of the laser altimeter during the final phase of descent sure sounds a lot like plume-surface interactions. Wouldn't happen with a landing pad.

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Again, dust from plume surface interactions would be consistent with LiDAR failure. Wouldn’t happen with a landing pad.

We've dropped two new reports on our website: 1. Lunar critical minerals (a balanced take) 💎 2. Resources of Mercury 😲 Check them out!

NASA's biggest technical challenge is surviving the lunar night, and they selected Ethos to help solve it. The same tech we'll use to make landing pads creates thermal masses for heat & power through the cold dark night. We're basically building giant heating pads on the Moon.

Casey Handmer Think in terms of Kardashev II and the path becomes obvious

Ryan McEntush Starship could deliver 100GW/year to high Earth orbit within 4 to 5 years if we can solve the other parts of the equation. 100TW/year is possible from a lunar base producing solar-powered AI satellites locally and accelerating them to escape velocity with a mass driver.

A large solar-powered AI satellite constellation would be able to prevent global warming by making tiny adjustments in how much solar energy reached Earth

For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to