Strocera

Excavation and drilling validation.

Apollo-traceable simulant for excavation, drilling, and sample-acquisition hardware validation.

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[ 01 ]The challenge

Excavation and drilling rigs interact with regolith mineralogy, hardness, and packing in ways generic sand cannot reproduce. Hardware qualification needs Apollo-traceable feedstock.

Schematic, illustrativeRegolithia
[ 02 ]The Strocera approach

Regolithia configured to the target mission profile, with alternative size fractions on request. Full hardware-specific specifications scoped per program.

Full Regolithia spec
[ 03 ]Specifications for this use case
Property
Value
Method
Phase match, Highland (RGS-H1)
96.4 %
4 modelled phases; XRD and SEM-EDS
Phase match, Mare (RGS-M1)
99.2 %
4 modelled phases; XRD and SEM-EDS
Highland reference
Apollo 16 soil 64501 (RGS-H1)
Mare reference
Apollo 17 soil 72501 (RGS-M1)
Size cut
< 75 µm mesh
Sieve
Alternative size fractions
On request
[ 04 ]Validation status
Lab-validated

Mission-specific simulant beds configured per program.

[ 05 ]Customer profile

Sample-acquisition, drilling, and excavation hardware teams for lunar missions.

[ 06 ]Adjacent use cases

Engineers working on this often also evaluate:

Bring your specification for Excavation and drilling validation.

Tell us the operating conditions. We'll formulate Regolithia to your application, and ship simulant matched to your particle specification and volume.