Ship Building

A shipyard where gravity doesn't get in the way.

The L4 Shipyard Facility sits at the gravitationally stable Earth–Moon Lagrange point, keeping station without constant propulsion. It's the industrial heart of Middleton Space: open construction bays for stage integration, a covered assembly hall for pressure-hull work, and a docking ring complex that can service up to six vehicles at once.

Everything the company flies passes through L4 at some point — new-build LEO Cargo boosters, refurbished upper stages returning from orbit, HE-3 landers cycling in from the lunar surface, and the habitat modules destined for the Mars colony program.

LEO-5 Earth Shuttle.

There is no faster method to get to low earth orbit than the LEO-5. Configured for passenger and crew use, it has a capacity for 24 passengers and two crew members.

Our standard flight time to our L4 Shipyard is merely 40 minutes.

Astra HLV

The number one feature of the Astra HLV is its ability to take 200 tons of cargo to low earth orbit daily. With 9 Trionex powered engines, this is the workhorse of the Middleton Space fleet.

So Middleton Space built backward from the end state: an orbital shipyard first, then the launch vehicles to feed it, then the surface operations and robotics to make the Moon a working site rather than a one-time visit. Colony is the next link in that chain.

He-3 Transport

Middleton Space was founded in 2084 on the idea that the bottleneck in space wasn't rockets — it was everything that has to happen after the rocket. Cargo without a destination is just a launch. A destination without local construction and maintenance capability doesn't last.

So Middleton Space built backward from the end state: an orbital shipyard first, then the launch vehicles to feed it, then the surface operations and robotics to make the Moon a working site rather than a one-time visit. Colony is the next link in that chain.

Mars Courier

With the advanced DASH-8 drive configuration, the MC-30 is rated for deep space navigation. The primary use is for shuttling people and equipment to and from Mars with a quick turnaround.

Cargo configuration can accomodate 500 tons and in passenger configuration is limited to 24 people.

Swift-Class Lunar Shuttle

The Swift-Class lunar lander is purpose built VTOL craft to support lunar operations. Capable of moving people or cargo from low earth orbit or L4 to the Moon and back quickly.

With their ion-fusion engines designed by Middleton Space, the trip including acceleration and deceleration phase is only sixteen hours.

The Ulysses Drive

72 Million Newtons. Four Engines. One Destination: Another Star.

The Ulysses propulsion system was created around a fundamentally different idea about spacecraft propulsion: an interstellar engine doesn't need to produce extraordinary thrust for minutes. It needs to produce extraordinary thrust for years.

Each production Ulysses engine delivers up to 18 meganewtons of continuous vacuum thrust. Installed in the four-engine configuration aboard Middleton Space Promise-class colony ships, the propulsion array is capable of producing a combined 72 meganewtons of sustained thrust.

But the defining characteristic of Ulysses isn't its peak output.

It's endurance.

Where conventional launch engines measure operating time in minutes, Ulysses was engineered for continuous and cyclic operation measured in years. Its propulsion architecture allows a fully loaded Promise-class vessel to continue accumulating velocity across billions of kilometers of space, ultimately reaching cruise velocities approaching 60 percent of the speed of light.

Ulysses makes that possible not through a single violent acceleration, but through relentless application of thrust—hour after hour, day after day, year after year.