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FRONTIER POINT, Texas — Ares Frontier, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARFX) today launched AF-C3-12, the twelfth crewed Ares Titan of Launch Window 3, from Pad 39-T at 14:32 UTC. The ship carries 119 members of Cohort 3, three Talos T4 units and a full resupply module bound for Promethea. The booster was caught by the Pad 39-T tower six minutes and fifty seconds after liftoff.

With twelve launches in thirty-six days, Window 3 is the fastest crewed launch campaign in history. Pad turnaround averaged five hours and forty-one minutes.

“Twelve for twelve,” said Kael Osterman, founder and CEO. “People told us a migration was impossible. Then they told us it was reckless. Now they're watching it on a livestream. To the families of Cohort 3: your loved ones are on the way to the best-equipped settlement ever built. Keep aiming for the stars.”

Six Titans remain on the Window 3 manifest. AF-C3-13 is scheduled to launch in three days.

About Ares Frontier: Founded in 2017, Ares Frontier designs, builds and operates the Ares Titan launch system, the Talos robotic workforce, and the Mars settlements of Elysium and Promethea. Ares Frontier is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

HOUSTON — Over the past several months, a hashtag campaign known as #BreathlessOnMars has spread false and distressing claims about the health of Elysium residents, including claims of illness, carbon dioxide poisoning and mass casualties. These claims are false.

Independent analysis commissioned by Ares Frontier found that more than eighty percent of accounts participating in the campaign show signs of coordinated inauthentic behavior, including links to known botnets and foreign state-affiliated networks. Many posts make claims that are physically impossible, including one popular thread attributing colonist illness to escaped bees. Ares Frontier has never sent bees to Mars.

The facts:

• Elysium's triple-redundant life support has operated within limits every sol since landing.
• Elysium mission operations report nominal status across all eight residential zones.
• Elysium residents send hundreds of messages home every night through Ares Link.

We understand how hard distance is for the families of colonists. We urge them to rely on Ares Link, where they can hear directly from the people they love, rather than anonymous accounts. Families with concerns can reach our Family Liaison team at any time.

WASHINGTON — Ares Frontier today welcomed the expansion of the federal Pardons for Passports initiative to include asylum seekers, refugees and individuals in removal proceedings. Eligible participants may renounce their claim to citizenship in exchange for the closure of pending proceedings and a guaranteed seat in a future colonial cohort.

“The President called me directly,” said Osterman. “He said, ‘Kael, what if we gave these people a future instead of a sentence?’ I said of course. We have families from South Sudan, Myanmar and Honduras, people fleeing death squads, and soon their kids will be learning in the same classrooms as the children of MIT engineers.”

Renata Kowalczyk, President of Colonial Operations, said Cohort 4 recruitment centers will open at twelve Nexus regional hubs and at participating detention facilities beginning in October.

HOUSTON — Ares Frontier today confirmed that the pre-arrival build of Promethea is complete. All six habitats (Beagle, Endeavor, Endurance, Discovery, Fram and Terra Nova) are pressurized and holding. The Arcadia dome, the hub track, the Mess and the amphitheater are finished, and the first hydroponic beds in Arcadia have been seeded.

The southeast extraction array has begun hydrothermal production from the Utopia ice sheet. “Ice is a feature, not a bug,” said Osterman. “Promethea is the first city on another planet that will never need a water shipment from Earth.”

Dr. Graham McKenzie, Director of Geological Operations, will oversee extraction and subsurface monitoring when Cohort 3 arrives.

Revenue of $4.82 billion, up 61% year over year. Cash and equivalents of $19.4 billion. Titan fleet availability of 97.3%. Talos production reached thirty units per day.

“Window 3 is fully funded,” said Daniel Okafor, Chief Financial Officer. “At Investor Day we'll share more about the resource portfolio at Promethea, which we believe is strategically significant well beyond water.”

This release contains forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially.

Elysium today marked two Earth-years of continuous human habitation. Residents celebrated with a festival in the hydroponic dome, according to messages received through Ares Link.

“We're building something here,” wrote one hydroponics technician to his daughter in Milwaukee. “I can't tell you about it just yet, but I can't wait until we're allowed to share it.”

On the test campaign: “My investors understood we weren't building a rocket. We were building humanity's future. And in rocketry, if you can't stomach a few explosions, you don't belong in this business.”

On Cohort 1: “Mars' atmosphere behaves in ways we can't test on Earth. A planet-wide dust storm had altered atmospheric density. A pressure bubble formed, and our engines couldn't make the corrections fast enough.”

On the competition: “Darien Voss is instantiating technofeudalism with his AGI. Elena Nair offers to solve it by strapping goggles to your face so we can pretend we're somewhere else. Mars is about opportunity. A future. Freedom.”

Ares Frontier today completed a full pad turnaround at Pad 40-T in five hours and fifty-two minutes, down from thirty-one hours at the start of Window 2. The improvement was driven by software that compensates for thermal stratification during propellant loading, removing the need for a forty-minute post-fill recirculation hold.

The integration places warehouse operations, camera networks, procurement, launch systems and the Mars uplink on a single network with unified credentials. Executive credentials now provide seamless access across both companies without session interruptions.

Elysium's mission control has transitioned to fully autonomous operations managed from the Houston Communications Hub. The Elysium flight control team will move to the Promethea program, where their judgment will matter most during site selection and pre-arrival construction.