Traverse Beacon
Between the yard and the mine head there is no road. There is a line of these. Plant it once; it outlasts the night.
Communications · Surface operations
Dispatches
Catalog bulletins and operations imagery from Artemis City and the south polar ice mines. Issue items shown are available via Earth distribution.
Earthlink Latency Handset
Earth is 1.3 light-seconds away. Every reply lands two and a half seconds after you stop talking — not a fault, a distance.
Breach Tape
Bonds cold against vacuum and holds a working seal — long enough to finish the shift, long enough to reach the next resupply window.
Growth Load Vest
Bone and muscle grow against a load. One-sixth gravity forgets to supply it. We issue the difference — sized small, worn daily.
Haul-Down Cargo Net
The haul road throws a loose load into a long, slow arc. It lands where the net isn't. The Haul-Down keeps the whole manifest on the bed.
Fines-Catch Filter Cartridge
Regolith fines are glass-sharp and settle slowly in one-sixth g. This is what keeps them out of the air before your second breath of it.
Surge-Lock Galley Pot
One-sixth g does not simmer, it surges. The Surge-Lock lid holds the boil below the rim through a full galley shift.
Stack-Lock Freight Crate
Weight drops to one-sixth on the surface. Friction drops with it. The Stack-Lock Freight Crate holds its stack by latch, not by luck.
Blowout Patch Kit
One hand, one patch, one seal — before the gauge finishes its drop.
Bound-Limiter Tether
One-sixth gravity turns a fetch into a flight plan. The Bound-Limiter Tether catches the arc before the ceiling does.
Shackleton Melt
Ice mined at the pole. Bottled for the crew that mined it.
Shadow-Grip Gloves
The coldest place a crew touches is the ice it mines. These stay flexible where the ordinary pair goes brittle.
Off-Shift Two-Iron
Recreation, surface-rated. One club, trajectory-calibrated for the long carry — 0.16 g and no atmosphere do the rest. Off-shift morale is a supply item.
Duty Cycle Lamp
The sun keeps its own schedule. You keep ours.
Core Auger
Every drop the city drinks starts as a core in the shadow. The Core Auger pulls it clean — high torque, frost-rated, one bore at a time.
Pollination Wand
No pollinators live at the south pole. Every blossom is worked by hand. Standard issue for dome agriculture crews.
Ration Wash Valve
Every liter came off an ice-mine haul. The valve remembers that so you don't have to.
Creep-Lock Crew Berth
At one-sixth g, friction is one-sixth too. Unsecured bedding creeps. Restraint webbing holds the berth where it's issued.
Regolith Muster Brush
Dust does not stop at the hatch on its own. Issue item at every airlock threshold, crew-side, before re-entry.
Sloshless Aquarium
Water moves differently here. It stays where we put it. Baffled and ballasted for one-sixth gravity.
Ballast Boots
Stay down. Weighted duty boots keep surface and mine crews planted through the full shift in 0.16 g — no bounce, no drift, no lost tools.
Ration Issue Cup
Gravity is optional. Hydration is not. Standard issue since Base Camp.