Rocket Downrange 🚀

To test what LunCoSim can actually do, we’re building @astrobotic Griffin-1 mission to the Moon as a working simulation. Griffin is the lander, and Astrolab’s FLIP rover rides on it. This is part of our work with @OfficialMoonDAO lunar base infrastructure. It’s not a render. The lander and rover are connected the way they are in reality. FLIP’s power and thermal systems are real models attached to the vehicle, so when the rover drives, power draw and temperatures change as a consequence, not as a scripted animation. The mission sequence is code you can read and edit. Change a waypoint, rerun it, see what breaks. The part we keep coming back to is provenance. Public Griffin and FLIP numbers are recorded with sources. Everything not yet public is clearly marked as a placeholder. That matters. A sim you can’t trace is just a video. A sim that tracks where every number came from is something you can actually argue with. LunCoSim is still alpha and open source. We’re building in the open, and yes, we’re still tuning our own processes. If you’re working on lunar or planetary missions, we’d love your eyes on it. We’ll be at a side event at @IAC2026Antalya in Belek on Oct 7, 18:30, showing the Griffin-1 model and gathering feedback. Bring a laptop if you want to drive the rover yourself.