An autonomous ISRU workflow directly converts prospecting data into actionable resource plans, eliminating the multi-hour latency of ground-in-the-loop analysis. The operational imperative is economic: reducing the mass and cost of Earth-supplied water, oxygen, and fuel by orders of magnitude for lunar or Martian outposts. This requires a custom orchestration layer that ingests spectral and geometric sensor data, runs site-suitability models, and outputs validated excavation schedules to robotic systems, all within local power and compute constraints.




