Polaris Project: Tall Lunar Tower (TLT)
The Tall Lunar Tower project developed and demonstrated supervised autonomous robotic assembly of a tall truss tower for lunar-surface power, communications, and navigation infrastructure. The work raised tower-assembly technologies toward TRL 4, produced tower and robotic-assembly engineering development units, and completed a September 2023 laboratory demonstration assembling and raising a 3.5-meter tower. The effort also studied dust-tolerant joints, ISRU-compatible truss components, vision, simulation, and scalable assembly for future lunar infrastructure.
Identity
- Aliases
- TLTTall Lunar TowerPolaris ProjectTall Lunar Tower Project
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Name
- Polaris Project: Tall Lunar Tower (TLT)
- Status
- completed
- Types
- developmentresearch
Details
- Description
- The Tall Lunar Tower project developed and demonstrated supervised autonomous robotic assembly of a tall truss tower for lunar-surface power, communications, and navigation infrastructure. The work raised tower-assembly technologies toward TRL 4, produced tower and robotic-assembly engineering development units, and completed a September 2023 laboratory demonstration assembling and raising a 3.5-meter tower. The effort also studied dust-tolerant joints, ISRU-compatible truss components, vision, simulation, and scalable assembly for future lunar infrastructure.
- End Date
- 2025-05-31
- Leads
- Participants
- -
- Start Date
- 2021-05-01
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 14, 2026 at 04:48:53 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 14, 2026 at 04:48:53 UTC
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