Foundation Space Resources develops Lunar Digital Twin simulation for mission planning and engineering. In its February 2026 CanadaBuys partnering entry, FSR describes route and operational-area analysis using slope, lighting, landing sites and objective distance, plus 3D partial-shadow power analysis and micrometeoroid shielding simulation. Thermal environmental simulation is described as near-future. CSA supports environmental-model and computational-efficiency development. The partnering entry is supplier-authored and is not an award, onboard deployment or proof of ten-year physical survival.
Technical detail
Core features
Lunar route analysis using slope, lighting and landing-site constraints
Three-dimensional partial-lighting and shadow analysis for power design
Thermal simulation identified as a future addition
Digital twin
Mission planning
Lunar simulation
Terrain analysis
Engineering design
Use & integration
Recorded applications
Mission planning
Hardware design and test
Landing-site optimization
Autonomous rover navigation development
These describe the reviewed application scope, not confirmed deployments, released requirements or procurement eligibility.
Evidence of maturity
Ground-based simulation development with C$252,648 CSA contribution 25STDPY11 running August 2025–February 2027. Public descriptions do not establish independent model-error bounds or onboard operational use.
Commercial availability
FSR invites mission and LUV development partnerships. Confirm model scope, validation datasets, integration interfaces and delivery terms; thermal simulation and on-rover deployment are not demonstrated current offerings.
Integration and verification
Readiness
A technology readiness level is not established by the reviewed public sources.
The integrated simulation environment may inform how mission data and autonomy are designed before deployment, but it is not publicly documented as an operational edge-compute capability.
This is a reviewed public-source assessment. It is not procurement eligibility, endorsement, customer interest, or classified demand.
Original sources 3 linked records
These records support this capability and its published Mission area and Defence need connections. A source count is not a count of independent confirmations.
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · core features
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · technology readiness level
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · core features
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · maturity
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · core features
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · capability type
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · core features
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · name
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Capability · summary
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Mission area · Edge Data Processing
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Mission area · Edge Data Processing
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Mission area · Edge Data Processing
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
Supports: Mission area · Edge Data Processing
FSR supplier-authored CanadaBuys partnering entry, modified February 26 2026, describes LUV path planning by slope, lighting, landing sites and distance, micrometeoroid virtual shielding tests and 3D partial shadow/power analysis. Thermal simulation is near-future. This is an expression of partnering interest, not a contract award or ten-year physical survival demonstration.
FSR October1 2025 announces CSA support to expand its Lunar Digital Twin. Terrain, line-of-sight, lighting and 3D shadow simulation are current described capabilities; weathering, impact risk and on-rover deployment are development directions.
CSA discloses Lunar Digital Twin contribution 25STDPY11 of C$252,648 from August 6 2025 to February 28 2027 for integrated environmental models and computational efficiency. R&D support does not demonstrate onboard deployment or model validation accuracy.
Supports: Capability · summary
Public sources cited · Facts and assessments kept separate · Human review
Foundation Space Resources is advancing an integrated lunar digital twin for mission planning and engineering design, including terrain, line-of-sight, lighting, shadow, space-weathering and impact-risk simulation.
Supports: Capability · maturity
CSA discloses Lunar Digital Twin contribution 25STDPY11 of C$252,648 from August 6 2025 to February 28 2027 for integrated environmental models and computational efficiency. R&D support does not demonstrate onboard deployment or model validation accuracy.
Supports: Mission area · Edge Data Processing
The integrated simulation environment may inform how mission data and autonomy are designed before deployment, but it is not publicly documented as an operational edge-compute capability.
