2025–2027 · Establish
Phase 0
The Standard
File HEX v1.0 with ESA and the relevant standards bodies. First Earth-analog prototypes. The goal isn't revenue — it's adoption.
Open Standard · Ad Lunam
The ISO container standard for space.
One open hexagonal interface so every container, rover, lab and habitat — on any world, in orbit or on the ground — can finally connect.
6+6 interfaces
T0→T6 tier stack
Open source
S·M·L 2.5 / 4.0 / 8.0 m
The Problem
Every mission reinvents the same box.
Each lander carries a custom payload no one else can use. No shared interfaces, no reusable logistics layer, no standard. NASA does it one way, ESA another, every commercial lander another — an industry burning billions to re-solve a problem we already cracked on Earth.
1956
The year one man standardized the shipping container — and restructured the global economy.
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To load a ship afterward — down from 5–7 days. The interface was the unlock, not the ship.
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Of world trade now flows through that single container interface standard.
Space logistics has no equivalent. Yet.
The HEX Standard
One hexagon. Total interoperability.
HEX is an open hexagonal container standard built to operate across any celestial body, any gravity environment, any mission architecture. The container's single hexagonal face becomes a male/female docking adapter that carries structure, power, data and fluid through one sealed coupling. Full modularity. Full tessellation. Hover to explore.
Hexagonal docking adapter
One face. One sealed coupling.
The hexagonal face mates as a flat male/female adapter — structure, power, data and fluid all pass through a single sealed coupling, like a hexagonal door. The T0 baseline has one opening; clusters add adapters on selected faces, never six loose ports.
Packing density
Maximum volume, minimum gaps.
Tessellation
Tiles flat across any surface.
Material efficiency
Least mass per unit strength.
The same reason bone, graphene and honeycomb are hexagonal. Geometry, not aesthetics.
Open source by design.
Standards only work if they're universal. We don't sell the spec — we publish it. The business is everything built on top: certification, hardware and integration.
T0 Container · Front
T0 Container · Isometric
Geometry · 6.9 m V2V
Why now
The window is open for ten years.
Artemis is flying. Commercial lunar payloads are real. Starship changes mass-to-orbit by an order of magnitude. Within a decade there will be permanent infrastructure on the lunar surface — and none of it will talk to each other unless someone builds the interface layer first.
In five years the proprietary solutions lock in. This is the moment a standard can still be set. We are setting it.
Tier Stack · T0 → T6
From a welded container to a civilization layer.
T0 · 2027–2030
First product
LUMO CORE
Three sizes — S 2.5 m, M 4.0 m, L 8.0 m vertex-to-vertex. Sold to research and analog facilities as ground-support hardware. Pre-habitat revenue.
T1 / T2 · 2030–2034
Mobile
ROVER & LAB
HEX cargo modules for any rover. Pressurized mobile research units. First real space deployments via commercial lunar landers.
T3 · 2034–2040
Habitat
LUMO HAB
Habitats assembled from HEX modules — the natural extension of everything below. Proven for years in Antarctic and lunar analogs first.
T4 · 2040–2050
Orbital
LUMO NET
Data centers, power relays and logistics hubs in lunar orbit. The standard reaches from the surface all the way to orbit.
T5 · 2050–2075
Scale
SELF-REINFORCING
Settlements tessellate HEX modules. Mars adopts it — the only standard with a 20-year track record.
T6 · 2075–2100
Infrastructure
CIVILIZATION LAYER
LUMO becomes infrastructure — like TCP/IP for human presence in space. Nobody thinks about it. Everything runs on it.
Business Model
The spec is free. Compatibility is not.
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Certification & Licensing
Companies building HEX-compatible hardware pay to certify. Verified interoperability is the product.
02
Hardware
LUMO-built containers for early adopters who need guaranteed spec compliance.
03
Integration Services
Mission-specific adaptation of the standard for agency and commercial customers.
04
IP on Derivatives
Habitats, orbital platforms and pressurized modules built on HEX license at scale.
The audacious version
By 2100, everything humanity has deployed beyond Earth speaks one language.
Rovers dock to habitats. Habitats connect to orbital stations. Supply chains flow from Earth to Moon to Mars through a single logistics layer — the interface standard underneath human presence in space.
The Mission
Skin in the game.
LUMO is being built by people who intend to live in what they build. Set the dominant infrastructure standard for space logistics. Get LUMO containers onto lunar missions. Build deeper hands-on knowledge of habitat construction than anyone who hasn't been there — then go. The astronauts of the 2030s won't only be test pilots; they'll be the engineers and builders the mission needs.
A standard written in Stuttgart by two people who started by welding containers in a garage. — The LUMO founding team
Get involved
Help set the standard.
We're talking to research institutions, space agencies, commercial lunar providers, press and engineers who want to build the interface layer for space. Tell us who you are.
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