Novo Navis Aerospace Operations
We build the structure in space infrastructure.
Carbon fiber woven in three directions that machines like metal. A station in low Earth orbit that makes its own fuel and building material. And a physical computing substrate of coupled conductive loops that holds its data in superposition, not in weights.
Today, everything used in space is launched from the ground: fuel, building material, even the air.
Launching is very expensive, so every pound counts. Avalon Civil Station makes these things where they are needed. It pulls gases from the top of the atmosphere and grows its own fuel and fiber on board, so far less has to be launched.
Space & Materials
Elogium
Carbon fiber woven in three directions. Machined and milled like metal.
In 2020, Novo Navis made a breakthrough in the carbon fiber industry: a way to weave carbon fiber in three directions at once, packed tight. The result is a block of carbon fiber you can machine and mill like metal. It is strong, it carries weight, and it is light.
Its high fiber content and its three-direction weave are what let it be machined. Pockets, grooves and threads are cut straight into the block and stay load-bearing.
Everything that follows is only possible because of that breakthrough.
Elogium Reconfigurable Structural Kit
Modular Elogium blocks, joined by a simplified APAS interface.
The station is robotically constructed from Elogium structural kits: modular blocks that launch unassembled and are put together in orbit by robots. Every block carries the same connector, a simplified Androgynous Peripheral Attach System interface with no male or female side, so any block joins any other block in any direction. The same blocks can be taken apart and rebuilt into a different structure.
Once the station is producing, it makes new blocks from its own harvest and keeps expanding with material grown on board.
Avalon Civil Station
A fuel, materials and laboratory facilities provider in low Earth orbit.
Avalon Civil Station makes fuel and building material where they are needed, rents room to researchers and manufacturers, and supplies the programs heading to the Moon and Mars. It is robotically constructed from Elogium structural kits, and once it is producing, it builds its next sections from its own harvest.
Avalon Civil Station
What the station provides
Fuel, building material, room to work, and supply for Moon and Mars programs.
- Fuel
The station grows a fast-growing plant, Pueraria montana var. lobata, and turns it into methane fuel.
- Building material
The same plant becomes carbon fiber. The station weaves it into Elogium and builds with it.
- Room to work
Tenants rent space on the arm platforms: drug manufacturing, research laboratories, materials manufacturing, warehousing and more.
- Supply for Moon and Mars programs
Part of the nitrogen and oxygen the station collects from the top of Earth’s atmosphere, and part of the methane and other biogas products it refines, go to Moon and Mars programs.
How the station is built
Robotically constructed from Elogium Reconfigurable Structural Kits.
The station is built from modular Elogium blocks, launched as unassembled kits and robotically assembled in orbit, each block connected to the next by a simplified APAS interface. The blocks are strong and light to launch, and the same blocks can be taken apart and rebuilt.
The station is shaped like an octagon. Eight satellite arm platforms connect to its core facility and are leased to tenants: drug manufacturing, research laboratories, materials manufacturing, warehousing and more.
Once the station is producing, it makes new Elogium from its own harvest and builds new sections from it. The station grows from what it makes.
How the station makes fuel and material
The station works like a farm and a refinery in one.
- Catch the air
The station lowers a long mast, called an inverse mast, into the very top of Earth’s atmosphere. The mast is shielded with heat-resistant ceramic. As the station moves, the mast stirs the thin air into two swirls that slow it down, and the station collects the slowed air, rich in nitrogen and oxygen, on the back stroke.
- Grow the plant
Pueraria montana var. lobata grows in a centrifuge in the outer ring of the core’s octagon. The spinning gives the plant something to push against, the way gravity does on Earth, so it grows the strong fiber needed to make new Elogium. It feeds itself with nitrogen from the collected air.
- Make fuel
The harvested plant goes into an anaerobic biorefinery that works like a cow’s stomach. Microbes break it down and give off methane and other biogas products.
- Make fiber
The tough, stringy parts of the plant are turned into carbon fiber.
- Build
The fiber is woven into Elogium and used to make additional modular blocks for station expansion, and material for lunar and Martian colonization and other structural needs.
Core innovations
Elogium Reconfigurable Structural Kit
- Every block carries one simplified APAS connector with no male or female side, so any block joins any other block in any direction.
- The blocks launch as unassembled kits and are robotically assembled in orbit. The same blocks can be taken apart and rebuilt into a different structure.
- The station makes new blocks from its own harvest, so it keeps expanding with material grown on board.
Anaerobic biorefinery
- Works like a cow’s stomach. Microbes break down the harvested plant and give off methane and other biogas products.
- Fed by the plant grown in the spinning centrifuge, which gives it something to push against so it grows strong fiber.
- One harvest makes two products: biogas from the soft parts of the plant, and carbon fiber for Elogium from the tough parts.
Inverse mast collector
- A long mast, shielded with heat-resistant ceramic, lowered into the very top of Earth’s atmosphere.
- The mast stirs the thin air into two swirls that slow it down. The station collects the slowed air on the back stroke.
- The collected nitrogen feeds the crop, and nitrogen and oxygen are supplied to Moon and Mars programs.
Operational phases
- Station core
Unassembled Elogium kits are launched and robotically assembled into the station’s core in orbit.
- Harvest
The inverse mast is deployed and begins collecting nitrogen and oxygen from the top of the atmosphere.
- Cultivation
The centrifuge in the core’s outer octagonal ring comes online, and the plant begins to grow.
- Refining
The anaerobic biorefinery comes online and turns the harvest into methane and other biogas products.
- Manufacturing
The fiber line comes online, and the station begins making carbon fiber and new Elogium blocks.
- Satellite arm platforms
The eight satellite arm platforms are assembled and connected to the core.
- Full operation
All systems run together, and the station is fully operational.
Advanced AI
Positronic
A physical computing substrate. The data is held in superposition, not in weights. Nothing is trained.
Eighty years of computing has moved one direction: from the transistor up through gates, machine code and languages to the token, each layer a symbol for the one beneath it. We went down a layer instead. Language describes three-dimensional objects, the relationships among them and the forces that act on them, so a sentence is built as the arrangement it describes and its field drives a frozen network of 362 coupled conductive loopsobeying only Faraday’s law and the RL circuit equation.
A body of text is not stored as a record. It is compiled into a key: the parameters of a field that returns the medium to the state the whole body produced. A question is driven into the same field at the same instant, and the answer is read from the interference.
The medium is a network of conductive loops coupled to one another through their own fields. Every loop both drives and receives. There is no input side and no output side, and the coupling among the loops is the computation. It has data, a great deal of it, but the data is not learned into weights. It is held across every loop at once, in superposition, and the physics settles it in the order the world settles things: cause before effect. That gives natural causal ordering and reasoning from first principles rather than from statistical association.
The same property opens a path to robotic proprioception. An actuator can sit on the medium directly, so the body it moves writes its own state back into the field, with no controller between the computation and the motion.
Alongside it, a line of work showing that relations behave as group elements: composition as arithmetic rather than inference, extrapolating far past training where a transformer three times the size falls to chance. Provisional patent applications are on file.
The thesis
A supply point in orbit
Fuel, material and air, made where the missions leave from.
Avalon Civil Station is a supply point in orbit. It makes methane, other biogas products, and building material, collects nitrogen and oxygen, and supplies the missions heading to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Everything it makes comes from one breakthrough: carbon fiber woven in three directions, strong enough to build with and light enough to launch. The station is built from it, and then builds more of it.
Record
- 2020
Novo Navis weaves carbon fiber in three directions at once. The block machines and mills like metal.
- 2020 · August
CompositesWorld reports the process: solid blocks of woven carbon fiber that machine like aluminum.
- 2026 · July
Elogium Reconfigurable Structural Kit: modular blocks joined by a simplified APAS interface, robotically assembled, taken apart and rebuilt in orbit.
- 2026 · August
First preprint: language computed by the cycle topology of neural tissue, with no learned parameter.
- 2026 · September
Superpositional memory demonstrated on a 362-loop artificial substrate. Provisional patent applications filed.
- 2026 · October
Fourth preprint: the lattice’s governing equation derived from Maxwell’s equations and checked against the 362-cavity substrate.
Research and Theory.Preprints, reports and the letter
Publications
Four preprints with DOIs, two reports, and the founder’s letter.
Preprint · October 2026
From Faraday and Maxwell to Neural Cycle Topology: The Operations of a Coupled Conductive-Loop Lattice
The governing equation of the lattice, derived from Maxwell’s equations and checked against the 362-cavity substrate. What the loops do when they ring: scale, filter, hold, phase-lock and decide, in two seconds.
doi 10.5281/zenodo.23236994Preprint · September 2026
Superpositional Memory Storage and Recall in an Artificial Neural Substrate
A body of information held in one field and queried by illuminating the superposition.
doi 10.5281/zenodo.22819391Preprint · August 2026
Language as an Algebraic Structure Computed by Neural Cycle Topology
Forty cycles measured from mouse cortex compute language with no training and no learned parameter, against ten null substrates declared in advance.
doi 10.5281/zenodo.22816968Preprint · 2026
Relations as Group Elements
Algebraic composition in place of statistical association, in eight pre-registered experiments. Chains extrapolate 12.8× past training where a larger transformer falls to chance.
doi 10.5281/zenodo.22002914Report
The Neural Topological Simulator
The connectome result, written for a general reader: what was measured, what the controls did, and what is not claimed.
news.novonavis.com/topologyFounder’s Letter
The Novo Navis Thesis
The materials problem, the orbital dock, the road to Mars, and why it has to be in this order. The canonical long version.
news.novonavis.com/founders-letterEssay
AI Is Fuel
Why AI spend looks unproductive on a P&L, and the conversion coefficient that turns productivity into value.
news.novonavis.com/airoiTalk to us.
Launch providers, oil and gas companies, robotic assembly companies, researchers and manufacturers who want room to work in orbit, and anyone who read the thesis and recognized something in it.