NADIR

NADIR SYSTEMS · HADAL-CLASS AUTONOMOUS PROBE

Most of the planet
has never been seen.

Eighty percent of the seafloor is unmapped. NADIR One dives to full ocean depth, works alone for 72 hours, and returns with survey data no satellite can touch. No tether. No pilot. No support ship burning $180,000 a day.

Rated depth
10,935 m
Endurance
72 h
Tethers
0
2027 slots
6

−200 M · TWILIGHT ZONE

Where sunlight gives up,
the sensors take over.

Below 200 meters the last blue light dies. From here down, NADIR One is the light — and everything it touches becomes data you own outright.

  • MULTIBEAM SONAR400 m swath · 5 cm vertical resolution
  • STEREO IMAGINGDual 4K low-light arrays · 12,000-lumen floods
  • CHEMISTRYCH₄ · H₂S · pH · Eh, sampled at 1 Hz
  • SUB-BOTTOMProfiler resolves 40 m into sediment

−1,000 M · MIDNIGHT ZONE

1,100 bar wants to
crush your hardware.
We designed for 1,400.

At full depth the ocean presses on every square centimeter with the weight of a car. NADIR One's core is a Grade 5 titanium sphere, machined as two hemispheres and mated to a tolerance of eight microns.

  • PRESSURE HULLTi-6Al-4V sphere · 127% overload tested
  • VIEWPORTSConical borosilicate · self-seating under load
  • BUOYANCYSyntactic foam block · rated to 12,000 m
  • QUALIFICATIONEvery unit pressure-cycled ×50 before delivery

−4,000 M · ABYSSAL PLAIN

No pilot. No tether.
No excuses.

A tether is a leash, a failure point, and a ship you have to pay for. NADIR One navigates by terrain — matching live sonar against its own growing map — and replans its survey on the fly when the seafloor surprises it.

  • NAVIGATIONTerrain-relative · drift < 0.1% of distance
  • UPLINKAcoustic burst summaries every 20 min
  • REPLANNINGOnboard · reprioritizes targets mid-mission
  • RECOVERYSurfaces within 5 m of the drop point

−6,000 M · HADAL ZONE

You're in the operator seat.

This is the console your survey team gets. Wake the floodlights, fire a sonar ping, plan a dive. The vehicle in the water behind this page responds.

VEHICLE

DIVE PLANNER

Pressure at target
605 bar
Descent time
2 h 13 m
Bottom time
60 h
Battery margin
+21%

SONAR RETURN NO PING

TELEMETRY

DEPTH 6,000 M HULL ΔP 601 BAR BATT 94% HDG 184°

−10,935 M · CHALLENGER DEEP · FULL OCEAN DEPTH

Six survey slots.
One 2027 campaign.

A NADIR survey block is 21 days on station, up to 14 full-depth dives, and exclusive rights to every byte the vehicle brings back. We build slowly and dive carefully — which means capacity is real, and it runs out.

Survey block21 days · up to 14 dives
Data rightsExclusive, in perpetuity
DeliverablesBathymetry · imagery · chemistry · raw sensor logs
2027 availability6 of 6 slots open
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