The container standard for space.
One open hexagonal interface for containers, rovers, labs and habitats — on any world. Configure a container, reserve your payload slot, choose your ride.
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.
Space logistics has no equivalent. Yet.
One standard. Three sizes. Five configurations.
HEX is an open hexagonal container standard: each opened face carries exactly one sealed male/female adapter — structure, power, data and air through a single coupling. The same hexagon scales from a lab-portable unit to a Starship-class module, and becomes whatever the mission needs: CARGO · LAB · HAB · DATA · POWER.
- Vertex to vertex
- 2.5 m
- Internal volume
- 6.1 m³
- Dry mass target
- ≤ 250 kg
- Openings
- 1 · adapter-ready
Buildable in any university hall, transportable disassembled, sized for lunar-lander cargo class. This is the unit that flies first.
- Vertex to vertex
- 4.0 m
- Class
- Heavy-lander
- Status
- Scale derivative
- Role
- Lab · logistics
The mid-size derivative for heavy commercial landers — pressurisable lab and logistics volume on the same interface.
- Vertex to vertex
- 8.0 m
- Class
- Super-heavy
- Status
- Scale derivative
- Role
- Habitat · datacenter
The endgame: habitat-scale modules sized for super-heavy launch, tiling into stations, bases and off-world datacenters.
Figures per current HEX standard baseline (v0). T0-M and T0-L are scale derivatives of the flying T0-S design. Human figure shown to scale (1.8 m).
A single adapter.
Structure, power, data and fluids pass through one sealed interface — never six loose ports.
No junkyard.
Every structure becomes obsolete someday. Spaceflight leaves wreckage behind — our containers come back the same way they arrived.
Book a slot, not a spacecraft.
The standard interface makes ridesharing plannable — universities, institutes and startups of any size book a HEX slot and fly.
Live the mission before it flies.
Analog missions simulate life and research on another world — right here on Earth, inside HEX container habitats. Join as crew, fly your experiment in a standardised bay, or build your thesis around a campaign. Every ground deployment builds heritage for the lunar surface.
Analog Astronaut
Live and operate in a HEX habitat — experiments, protocols, simulated EVAs. Open to anyone with the drive; a first real step toward the astronaut path.
Join a crew →Research Payload
Institutes and R&D teams: your experiment in a standardised HEX bay — human-in-the-loop research with data support and co-publication.
Propose an experiment →Thesis & Student Projects
Build your Bachelor's or Master's thesis around a real campaign — co-supervised, with hardware you can point at instead of just a PDF.
Propose a project →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.
The spec is free. Compatibility is not.
Certification & Licensing
Companies building HEX-compatible hardware pay to certify. Verified interoperability is the product.
Hardware & Slots
LUMO-built containers and payload slots for early adopters who need guaranteed spec compliance.
Missions & Logistics
Analog campaigns, integration, transport and mission operations — the full logistics chain as a service.
IP on Derivatives
Habitats, orbital platforms and pressurized modules built on HEX license at scale.
Hexagons tessellate. Containers become labs, labs become habitats, habitats become the first permanent infrastructure beyond Earth — sketched today, built step by step.
Giving consciousness a home in the universe.
LUMO · Ad Lunam
Programs we present at, apply to or build toward — shown as ecosystem context, not endorsements.
Not a paper company.
Symposium stages, ESA training facilities, expo floors — this is where the standard is argued, tested and defended in person.
LUMO, in the open.
Presented at ESA & TU München and Politecnico di Torino symposia, and published openly. A standard only works if it is shared.
Help set the standard.
We're talking to research institutions, R&D teams, space agencies, commercial lunar providers, students, press and engineers who want to build the interface layer for space. Tell us who you are.
Mission updates
Standard releases, analog campaigns, payload calls — a few times a year, no noise.