// TERRAFORMING 05 — VOLATILES & WATER
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Finding the water before the world.
Mapping and mobilizing subsurface ice and bound volatiles — the near-term ISRU that feeds habitats and the long-term inventory that any larger ambition depends on.
- Subsurface
- Ice mapping + extraction
- Closed-loop
- Water cycles inside enclosures
- Near-term
- Overlaps deployable ISRU
// WHERE THE LINE IS
Habitat-scale water ISRU overlaps deployable work. Planetary inventory is research.
Horizon: Active research
The most useful frontier
Water is the volatile that pays off at every rung: it closes habitat loops today and bounds every larger ambition tomorrow. This is where research and deployment overlap most, so it gets disproportionate attention.
Research the upper ladder. Deploy the lower one.
Partner on the science, or put the deployable building blocks on a site today.