INORE / SPACE
R&D HORIZON · 2030s
Mining beyond Earth
Civilization will keep needing metal. The long-term answer is not the one planet with a biosphere. INORE is building the operating systems and robots that will move heavy extraction off-planet.
WHY SPACE
We shouldn’t be digging the only planet that supports us
01 · EARTH
Demand for copper, nickel, and lithium multiplies while every new ore body sits deeper, hotter, and closer to places people live. Extraction on Earth has a rising human and ecological price.
02 · OFF-EARTH
The Moon holds hundreds of millions of tonnes of water ice, and a single metal-rich asteroid carries more iron and nickel than humanity has ever mined. Silent rock, nobody’s home, nothing to protect.
03 · AUTONOMY
No person will ever operate an excavator in a vacuum. Off-Earth extraction is an autonomy problem, and autonomy is the problem INORE already solves in the harshest pits on Earth.
LUNAR WATER ICE
600M t+
PSYCHE METAL VALUE
$10,000Q
LUNAR NIGHT
14 days
SURFACE TEMP
−170…120 °C
CREW REQUIRED
0
THE PATHWAY
Earth is the qualification program
2026
Company formed. CONTROL in simulation; a design-partner site signed with data rights.
NEXT
SCOUT v0 field program. A fenced site in Western Australia: 1,000+ supervised hours toward an ISO 17757-aligned safety case.
2028
First INORE BASE. A perimeter service station at the zone boundary, and the first paid deployment.
3–5 YRS
The operating layer. 10 to 20 sites; intervention and energy management across mixed OEM fleets.
5–10 YRS
Purpose-built machines. Seatless machines co-developed with OEM partners; lunar subsystem qualification with agency programs.
BEYOND
Heavy extraction moves off-planet for good. Earth’s remaining mines become the bridge, not the destination.
THE PROGRAM
Three pieces, one system
01 / SURFACE
CERES-R
A drum-cutter rover on rocker-bogie suspension built for one-sixth g. Extracts and beneficiates regolith on site, solar-charged, dormant through the 14-day night.
02 / ORBIT
Processing platform
A capture-ring platform refines water and metals in microgravity. Water splits into propellant; metals never ride a rocket back down the well.
03 / EARTH
Qualification fleet
ATLAS, DELVER, SCOUT, and TALON are the test program. Space is the deployment, not the experiment.
FULL MACHINE DETAIL: CERES PROGRAM →
Extraction leaves the planet
Agencies, researchers, and partners building toward off-Earth resources: we want to talk.