A future network of autonomous reusable transporters connecting Earth orbit, the Moon, and eventually Mars.
Space transportation today is largely mission-by-mission: a new vehicle, a new architecture and a new operations campaign for every payload. SpaceOro explores the opposite premise — a persistent transportation layer that routes cargo between fixed orbital destinations, again and again.
Close that loop enough times and the individual flight stops being the product. The network becomes the product.
The Moon is the first major transportation node. Mars is a later expansion of the same architecture, not a parallel programme.
These are design objectives for a future vehicle architecture. None of them are built or demonstrated capabilities today.
Navigation, guidance and fault handling without a crew in the loop.
Docking with orbital infrastructure at both ends of the route.
Standardised payload carriers rather than bespoke mission hardware.
A vehicle designed for many transfers, not a single flight.
Propellant and maintenance where infrastructure permits.
Coming back to the departure node ready for the next assignment.
A single reusable transporter performing a complete round trip through the Earth–Moon system.
Vehicle loiters in low Earth orbit until the translunar injection window.
A high-energy ellipse raises apogee toward the Moon's orbital radius.
Braking at periselene captures the vehicle into lunar orbit.
Cargo delivery, rendezvous or station-keeping in the lunar node.
Departure burn places the vehicle on an Earth-return trajectory.
Arrival at the Earth node, ready to be turned around for reuse.
Full mission cycle: translunar injection, lunar orbit operations, trans-Earth injection and arrival back at the Earth node.
Later expansion of the same architecture, flown on interplanetary transfer arcs rather than translunar ones.
* Dependent on orbital geometry at departure — transfer duration varies with the launch window, phase angle and synodic alignment of the departure and arrival orbits.
Each phase depends on the one before it. SpaceOro is currently in Phase 1.
The architecture is developed through trajectory modelling and mission analysis rather than renderings alone.
A future business model and economic hypothesis — not current revenue, pricing or contracted service.
SpaceOro explores what that infrastructure could become.