Orbital agriculture · Live constellation

The pantry doesn't launch with you anymore.

This constellation uses mocked planning data. It does not represent deployed Artera spacecraft, current mission capability, contracted demand, or recognized revenue.

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This constellation uses mocked planning data. It does not represent deployed Artera spacecraft, current mission capability, contracted demand, or recognized revenue.

Every mission today is scoped around a shrinking pantry instead of the exploration itself. Artera grows food in space with a constellation of autonomous agriculture pods — positioned and orbited to meet missions where they're going.

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crew hours per harvest
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resupply, grown in-situ
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standard satellite bus

[ ILLUSTRATIVE MAP ]

What you're looking at.

The map above animates a proposed constellation. Grow pods hold a ring of low orbits, craft rendezvous with a station orbiting the Moon, and that station resupplies the surface — the pantry grown in place, not launched from Earth.Use the cluster chips to jump between the Earth · Moon and Mars regions, then scroll to zoom, drag to pan, select a pod for its next delivery, or expand the map full-screen.

  1. GROW

    Pods in a cluster

    A constellation of autonomous grow pods holds a ring of low orbits in each neighborhood — clustered around Earth and the Moon, with Mars on the map as the network extends outward.

  2. DOCK

    Rendezvous with the station

    Craft fly real Kepler trajectories from the pods to a station orbiting the Moon, docking on a regular cadence.

  3. RESUPPLY

    Down to the surface

    The station replenishes the lunar base — a supply chain built in place instead of resupplied from Earth.

[ 01 / THE BOTTLENECK ]

Humanity's expansion into the cosmos is bottlenecked bywhat we can carry.

As long as food has to be launched, stored, and resupplied on a fixed schedule, the range of every mission collapses to the size of its pantry. Artera breaks that constraint by building the supply chain in place — a distributed food network that lowers cost, mitigates risk, and offers the quiet security of knowing the food is already there.

[ 02 / THE CONSTELLATION ]

Not one greenhouse. A living constellation.

Artera grows food in-situ aboard a constellation of autonomous agriculture pods — deciding where and how to grow across the network, and how to navigate each harvest to you. The agronomy and the flight dynamics are ours to solve.

  1. IN·SITU

    Grown in place

    Crops are cultivated from compact supplies aboard the pods — turning launched mass into a renewing harvest instead of a shrinking pantry.

  2. ORBIT

    Positioned ahead

    Pods hold fixed positions and orbits aligned to missions and their future outputs, so food is staged along the route before anyone arrives.

  3. AUTO

    Grows & navigates itself

    Each pod tends its own harvest and flies its own trajectory. The agronomy and the flight dynamics are ours to solve — never yours.

[ 03 / ORDERING ]

Order food. Not a mission.

Choose what to order. Artera calculates the rest from your mission, outpost, space station, or off-world settlement — growing it and routing it automatically — and delivers fresh food on a schedule you can count on. The complexity is real. It's just not yours.

[ 04 / WHAT WE PUBLISH ]

Research, milestones, and updates.

We publish what we measure, including the results that go against us.

  1. demoM1-pod-platform-earth-analogue

    Why a space agriculture company is spending this year growing lettuce in a tent

    The Earth Analogue Experiment is lit and instrumented, and the seed is not in yet. Before an Artera Plant Pod grows anything in orbit, the cultivar NASA grew on the station has to grow here — and we have to say how close it came to a number someone else published.

  2. research

    What a kilogram of blueberries costs on the Moon

    Delivering one kilogram of freeze-dried blueberries to the lunar surface costs at least $770,000. Growing the same kilogram costs about two bush-years, forty robot-hours, and a plant that does not fit in our pod. Here is every delivery figure we could source, and the year each was last quoted.

  3. research

    The first controlled environment, and how an AI read it

    A monitored seed incubator is our first chamber that acts on its environment and does not only report it. The light sensor found a large light deficit before it damaged the crop. An agent did the calibration and read the values.

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[ 05 / GET IN TOUCH ]

Building the food supply chain in space.

We're an early-stage team out of Space City. If you're a mission planner, an investor, or an operator who wants fresh food waiting in orbit — let's talk.

contact@artera.space