Kepler Carbon ReCapture (aka Kepler ReCapture) was founded in May of 2021 and as a division of Austin, Texas based aerospace consulting firm Kepler Shipyards. We are a global, interdisciplinary team of 20+ professionals from the fields of biochemistry, oceanography, naval architecture, information technology, business development, and finance. Our mission is to rebalance the Earth’s carbon cycle to near pre-industrial levels while competing in -- and winning -- the Musk Foundation’s $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal Competition. Kepler Carbon Recapture is the world's first autonomous, ocean-based, sustainable, CO₂ mining operation set to reach the IPCC’s critical gigaton-scale by 2035. As we align the machinery of man with the machinery of nature, Kepler ReCapture aims to become the vanguard of this emerging multi-trillion dollar market. Kepler’s approach to the XPRIZE Carbon Removal Contest is applying an ocean-based, autonomous platform that extracts excess CO₂ (from air and oceans) and converts it into durable product streams that never decompose back into greenhouse gasses. d