Traysar’s initial product pipeline includes a high-speed, rapid-burrowing drone system for creating subterranean access points and delivering defensive payloads deep beneath the surface.

Silent Ventures has previously led foundational rounds for Saronic and Castelion.

Traysar plans to scale its engineering personnel and begin physical field testing of its autonomous burrowing platforms on dedicated testing ranges later in 2026.

Traysar’s initial product pipeline includes an excavator-class autonomous tunnel breaching and tactical exploration vehicle.

Traysar was co-founded by Yadin Soffer, Asher Katz, and Gilad Adin.

Traysar closed a $25 million seed funding round led by Silent Ventures.

Traysar’s seed round included Lux Capital, Ora Global, NeverLift VC, Mana, Impatient Ventures, New Vista, and Entree Capital.

The James Webb Space Telescope is a joint program of NASA, ESA, and CSA.

Rocket Lab achieved the fastest response time ever for a U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command Tactically Responsive Space mission.

Rocket Lab’s VICTUS HAZE launch beat the 24-hour target for the mission.

TrueAnomaly’s Jackal spacecraft from CAS500-2 is part of VICTUS HAZE.

Rocket Lab’s VICTUS HAZE launch broke Firefly’s previous 27-hour record.

Rocket Lab launched VICTUS HAZE 16 hours 42 minutes after receiving the notice.

An APAS-89 unit has a mass of approximately 300 kilograms.

The STS-74 APDA retained four electrical interface connectors, including two with 184 contacts for power and two with 151 contacts for control and data channels.

The inward-canted capture ring petals on the new APAS freed space for sensors, electrical connectors, hydraulic connectors, and propellant transfer between docked spacecraft.

The revised soft APAS became the basis for all active APDAs used on Shuttle flights to the International Space Station except the STS-88 unit.

The STS-74 docking assembly included an APAS Switching System that rerouted control wiring so APAS No. 1 on the Mir Docking Module could be controlled from Atlantis.

Each APAS-89 unit is approximately 676 millimeters tall, 1,552 millimeters in outer diameter, and about 300 kilograms in mass.

The Mir Docking Module had APAS units at both ends, with APAS No. 2 serving as the passive target port and APAS No. 1 serving as the active unit.

APAS-89 is a fully androgynous docking system in which both spacecraft carry an identical assembly and either can assume the active role.

An APAS-89 unit is 676 millimeters tall and has an outer diameter of 1,552 millimeters excluding sensors and connectors.

The APAS port on the Shuttle-Mir Orbiter Docking System was mechanically identical to the Kristall APAS specification but was modified for the shuttle’s electrical and control system.

The Mir Docking Module was built to let the shuttle dock to Mir without re-docking Kristall for every mission.

APAS allowed either spacecraft to assume the active role in docking.

PMA-1 used an active APDA because it required the switching system to connect the orbiter’s controls to the passive port.

Atlantis flew STS-71 in June 1995 with the Rockwell-built prototype Orbiter Docking System and an Energia-built APAS unit.

The STS-74 docking assembly retained four electrical interface connectors, including two 184-contact connectors delivering 1.4 kilowatts of power and two 151-contact connectors for control and data channels.

Energia product code 008-09 was assigned to the -6001 APDA, and the Mir-era APAS units on Kristall carried Energia part number 008-01.

The inward-canted capture ring allowed astronauts to remove the capture mechanism from inside the pressurized volume and increase the passage diameter from 0.8 to 1.25 meters.

V.S. Syromyatnikov’s team at NPO Energia began preliminary work on a successor to APAS-75 one year after the Apollo-Soyuz mission.

Kristall’s APAS-89 assemblies used NPO Energia part number 008-01.

APAS could be configured as a passive port, a soft-dock-only version for EVA servicing missions, or an unpressurized version with the hard-docking collar.

Energia’s product codes for APAS variants remained within the ZZU.6201.008 series.

The new APAS became the default docking port for NPO Energia projects and was included in plans for Buran, the Mir-2 space station, and the reusable Zarya capsule.

Kristall’s APAS units lacked the two circular rubber gaskets on the hard docking collar and relied on the visiting spacecraft for the hermetic seal.

The revised soft APAS design became the basis for all active APDAs used on Shuttle flights to the International Space Station except the STS-88 unit.

The STS-74 APDA flew on six Shuttle-Mir missions from STS-74 through STS-86 and was retired afterward.

The inward-canted capture ring petals also allowed the pressurized passage diameter between spacecraft to increase from 0.8 meters to 1.25 meters after the capture mechanism was removed from inside the pressurized volume.

All Shuttle missions to the International Space Station after STS-88 used the -6001 series APDAs.

The first two APAS-89 assemblies to fly in space were installed on the Mir station’s Kristall module.

The STS-71 APDA used NPO Energia part number 008-05 and NASA/Rockwell designator -3001.

APAS-89 is a fully androgynous docking system with identical hardware on the chasing and target spacecraft.

APAS was designed with similar overall dimensions to the SSVP system so it could be incorporated into existing spacecraft designs without major structural changes.

Atlantis carried the Rockwell-built prototype Orbiter Docking System and an Energia-built APAS unit on STS-71 in June 1995.

The Mir Docking Module carried APAS units at both ends and was scheduled to launch on STS-74.

Discovery was the first orbiter to be fitted with the definitive Orbiter Docking System and the ISS-specification -6001 APDA during OMDP-2 between September 1995 and June 1996.

The APAS-75 design was independently built by American and Soviet teams to a common standard.

APAS-75 was the single name given to the Apollo-Soyuz docking design, and the American and Soviet teams each built distinct hardware to a common standard.

The Interim Control Module would have used an active APDA with NASA designator -7002 and Energia product code 008-11 and a passive APDA with NASA designator -8002 and Energia product code 008-12.