Aurora / BioGrow Mission Readiness Scorecard - Space Cadet Training Baseline 2026.10.23

AURORA / BIOGROW MISSION READINESS DASHBOARD

Public baseline • Revision 2026.10.23 • Aurora Mk-I V2.1 / The HALO

Status labels describe the maturity of the published program record. They do not represent NASA, SpaceX, WVU, USGS, or flight certification.

STATUS LEGEND

🟦 DEFINED — requirement, architecture, role, or process has been documented.

⬜ OPEN — important work remains unresolved or unmeasured.

🟨 TESTING — an item is actively undergoing a documented test or evaluation.

🟩 VALIDATED — evidence or authoritative source review supports the stated result. For hardware, this requires test evidence.

🟥 BLOCKED — progress depends on an external approval, interface, provider, prerequisite, or unresolved gate.

🟦 DEFINED — 5

Mission architecture baseline — Aurora / BioGrow small-team reconnaissance and sustainability research concept.

Claims-control framework — fact, estimate, hypothesis, and concept are separated publicly.

Weekly operating cycle — 3 Sustains + 3 Improves.

Space Cadet training architecture — systems, safety, remote sensing, BioGrow, robotics, data, leadership/public science.

Public documentation path — Mission Module 1 packet, readiness scorecard, revision history, and concept gallery.

⬜ OPEN — 6

Payload mass budget.

Power-generation, storage, and peak-load budget.

Thermal-control and lunar-environment budget.

Communications / telemetry / data-rate budget.

Repeatable subscale prototype qualification campaign.

Final mission crew/cadet selection criteria and training-frequency schedule.

🟨 TESTING — 0 HARDWARE ITEMS PUBLISHED

No Aurora flight or mobility subsystem is currently presented as being in validated qualification testing. The next program goal is to move the first repeatable subscale test series from OPEN to TESTING with documented acceptance criteria and evidence.

🟩 VALIDATED — 2 REFERENCE / PROCESS ITEMS

Source-control process — Landsat 9 launch vehicle, mission architecture, and team-role references were checked against authoritative public records.

Program claims discipline — the public release explicitly prevents unverified engineering capability from being presented as demonstrated performance.

Important: VALIDATED in these two entries refers to source/process validation, not validation of Aurora flight, hover, submersible, lunar, propulsion, or life-support performance.

🟥 BLOCKED / EXTERNAL DEPENDENCIES — 3

Starship / host-vehicle payload interface — no secured Aurora integration agreement or approved interface is claimed.

Flight manifest — no Aurora lunar flight assignment is currently claimed.

WVU / collegiate program integration — pending faculty, institutional, safety, funding, and program-specific approvals before any formal affiliation is represented.

THIS WEEK — 3 SUSTAINS

1. Sustain evidence-based claim labeling.

2. Sustain gated development before spending or scaling.

3. Sustain public revision history and open research communication.

THIS WEEK — 3 IMPROVES

1. Build controlled mass, power, thermal, and data ledgers.

2. Move the first repeatable subscale test protocol toward TESTING status.

3. Build the Space Cadet role matrix, faculty-mentor pathway, study-frequency plan, and collegiate/intercollegiate participation package.

TEAM ACQUISITION / PUBLIC VALUE

Aurora HALO Institutional Team Acquisition Package: seller-established value USD 2,500,000. The listing is a documentation and concept-package acquisition pathway; it does not itself grant flight access, employment, university affiliation, manufacturing authority, exclusive IP rights, or third-party endorsement.

RELEASE CONTROL

A status changes only when evidence changes. OPEN can become TESTING when a documented evaluation begins. TESTING becomes VALIDATED only when its acceptance criteria are met and evidence is retained. BLOCKED becomes OPEN or DEFINED when the external gate is actually cleared.