About SIWOM Space
A space-technology initiative by SIWOM Exploration Technologies.
Mission
Build intelligent technology for exploring planetary environments.
Vision
Enable researchers, engineers and future exploration missions to understand planetary terrain, plan safer routes, evaluate environmental constraints, and develop increasingly autonomous exploration systems.
Where we are today
Early stage, and clear about it.
SIWOM Space is an early-stage venture. We have no customers, partnerships, flight heritage or hardware to report. What we do have is working software on real planetary data, a documented data pipeline, and a roadmap that puts each capability on top of the one before it.
Our starting point is planetary data, terrain understanding and mission-planning research. Robotics and hardware are longer-term opportunities that we will pursue only when the engineering supports them — this page will change as that happens.
SIWOM Space is the space-technology brand of SIWOM Exploration Technologies. We do not list a headquarters, team size or advisors here because this site only states what we can stand behind.
Research principles
Scientific transparency is the product.
Exploration decisions depend on trust in the data behind them. These principles apply to everything we publish, including this website.
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Data before claims
We start from documented scientific data and say where every number comes from. If we cannot source it, we do not show it.
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Label uncertainty
Measured, derived, estimated and simulated results are labelled as such, together with the assumptions that produced them.
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Reproducible by default
Processing is scripted and recorded, so that anyone can follow a result back to its source and run it again.
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Honest status
Every capability is marked available, prototype, research or planned. We do not present plans as products.
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Open where possible
We publish code and methods where licences allow, and credit the missions and teams whose data we build on.
Engineering approach
One verifiable layer at a time.
- Build the smallest thing that is real
- Each capability starts as working software on real data — the Terrain Lab and MOMAR — before it is generalized.
- Test the parts that make claims
- Slope, routing and route statistics are covered by unit tests, including checks against real Jezero data.
- Prefer the browser
- Tools run where people already are: no installation, no account, data processed on the visitor's own device.
- Earn the next layer
- Mission planning builds on terrain analysis; autonomy builds on planning; hardware only follows demonstrated engineering progress.
Roadmap
Sequenced, not dated.
- Phase 01Now
Planetary data foundations
Turn documented orbital data into terrain understanding that anyone can inspect.
- SIWOM Terrain LabAvailable
- Dataset catalogue with provenanceAvailable
- MOMAR Mars plannerPrototype
- Phase 02Next
Lunar and mission context
Extend the same pipeline to the Moon and to mission-level questions.
- CLPS Lunar Mission BrowserPlanned
- LOLA and LROC processing pipelinePlanned
- Illumination and shadow analysisPlanned
- Phase 03Later
Autonomy research
Move from planning on maps toward decisions a robot could make on its own.
- Any-angle, uncertainty-aware planningResearch
- Rover-scale terrain perceptionPlanned
- Robotic exploration simulationPlanned
- Phase 04Long term
Robotics and hardware interfaces
Connect software to robotic platforms — hardware only where engineering progress supports it.
- Simulation-to-robot software interfacesPlanned
- Embedded and onboard computing researchPlanned
- Rover hardware prototypesPlanned
Open collaboration
We would rather build this with others.
Universities, research groups and space-technology teams working on planetary data, terrain analysis or autonomy: we are open to research partnerships, data collaborations and joint prototypes.