Open integration framework for lunar surface systems.
A shared technical baseline for lunar robotics.
As lunar activity expands, teams are building hardware against independent assumptions — reconciled only late in the integration cycle, creating duplicated effort and risk.
LORS provides a neutral pre-integration layer: interface definitions, conformance criteria, and validation tools at the boundaries where incompatibilities most often emerge — mechanical attachment, electrical behavior, data exchange, and safety logic. It is validated through the design and planned flight of a small open-source lunar rover serving as the reference implementation.
Mission at a glance
From spec to lunar surface.
The development path runs from framework definition through environmental qualification, flight model fabrication, and surface operations.
An open initiative — you're next.
LORS is open to anyone. These people actively participated in Phase 1 — engineers, founders, and scientists who showed up and built something real.
Interoperability doesn't happen by accident. It requires shared standards, common interfaces, and the discipline to validate before you fly.
Phase 1 Report
Phase 1 was sponsored by MoonDAO
The first research phase established the framework structure, interface domains, and conformance methodology for lunar surface integration standards.
The repository is a live database
Interface definitions, conformance checklists, requirements-to-test traceability, telemetry schemas, and simulation templates — continuously updated as the standard evolves.
View on GitHubTell us your pain points.
Where does integration actually break down? Where do teams lose weeks reconciling assumptions that should have been shared from day one?
We're running short interviews with engineers and teams working on lunar and planetary surface systems — no sales pitch, just an honest engineering conversation about real integration challenges. Your input directly shapes the standard.
Book a 20-min InterviewThe reference implementation, now in creation.
Rucheyok — "small stream" — is the open-source 2 kg lunar rover being built to validate LORS end-to-end. Every design decision, qualification test, and integration log will be published openly.
Proof of concept
Proves that an open rover architecture can be specified, qualified, integrated with a lander, deployed, and operated under a shared engineering framework.
Reusable outputs
Validated rover documentation, interface specs, and open datasets informing future lunar and planetary developments beyond this mission.
For Collaborators
We're looking for engineers across mechanical, software, electrical, and operations disciplines to join the build.
For Investors
LORS is financeable through agency funding, industry sponsorship, research grants, and aligned philanthropy. Let's talk.
LORS-R1 · Rucheyok · Reference Spec
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