Customer Story

Built for the Moon: How Astrolab avoided years of in-house tooling debt

Astrolab is building a fleet of lunar rovers under a NASA contract worth up to $4.6 billion. See how it put all of its data, telemetry, and storage on Sift to keep engineers focused on the rover, not the tooling.

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In Their Words

Choosing Sift was an important decision for us... It provides a one stop shop for all of our data, telemetry, storage, and access needs.

Niraj Patel Senior Software Engineer, Astrolab

$219M

NASA’s task order for Astrolab’s Crewed Lunar Vehicle

950kg

CLV-1’s maximum mass and top speed

>5k hrs

Engineering time saved with Sift

$100k+

Cost savings on internal tooling with Sift

Sift for Aerospace

Core Capabilities

Skip years of in-house tooling and stay focused on the rover

Review simulation and field-test data without the manual grind

Share telemetry with NASA and partners while protecting every record

Sift features

How Astrolab ships faster with Sift

HITL, simulation, or field testing - it’s all in Sift

Attribute-based access control lets you collaborate with peace of mind

Astrolabs can annotate anomalies all in the same platform so context always follows data

Sift sharelinks show your exact view, the precise signal, scale, time window, and annotations, with anyone

Sift Reports aggregates results against requirements and generate audit-ready compliance reports in one click.

Live alerts trigger alerts the moment behavior shifts and push every event to the tools your team already runs.

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