What changed on SpaceMiningData

Dataset version a00fa2c68a45 · 271 published records

• Added NASA's planned PROMISE rover for the Moon's South Pole, which NASA says will drill to characterize ice and other resources. Launch is a late-2028 target.
• Added NASA's 7 November selection of eight companies for its CLPS 2 lunar delivery contract. Selection makes a company eligible to compete; the $10 billion is a ceiling, not money awarded.
• Added NASA's $94 million base award to Blue Origin to deliver PROMISE. A further $140 million is a performance-based option; NASA's 7 November announcement does not report it being exercised.
• Added the 3 November presidential proclamation on freedom in space. Its text sets no licensing process, funding or rule on who owns extracted resources.
• Griffin-1 now says Interlune states METAL flies on the FLIP rover, while NASA's Griffin section does not name FLIP. Chang'e-8 now notes the planned SUPARCO rover. One Fleet Space quotation's spacing is corrected.

Dataset version dc0d25d308d9 · 267 published records

• Each south polar site on the 3D Moon shows today and the next 29 UTC days, using hourly Sun estimates above a level horizon. Every day can be selected by keyboard, alongside the bars and highest-day button. Nearby terrain can still hide the Sun; these are approximate model samples. A selected day stays represented on the date slider, and graphics-failure text explains which information remains available below.
• Every record listed on the 3D Moon, in its panels and in the lists below the view, repeats its mission page's list of how a planned date changed: the same recorded changes, oldest first, in the record's own words, with a link to the schedule changes page. Eight records have one today. No research record or reuse permission changed.
• Private maintenance reports distinguish a missing or unreadable source report from a valid report with no selected work, and distinguish source-reading dates from prior record checks. No scheduler, publication permission or evidence hold changed.

See: 3D Moon, Space mission launch date changes.

Dataset version dc0d25d308d9 · 267 published records

• LUPEX and ISRO retain a blocked historical press quotation without claiming a verified raw-text match. The official ISRO financial-sanction source is now also cited on the agency profile.
• Interlune and Starpath distinguish an AI comparison of parsed SEC filing text from a downloaded raw-text match. Existing financing and address evidence holds remain open.
• LSIC's activity status is explicitly supported by NASA's current consortium passage. VIPER adds NASA's October rover update without changing its conditional landing target or claiming that the delivery option was exercised.
• Record pages explain why source-access, whole-record check and scoped independent-review dates can differ. An AI quotation comparison may use parsed or cached text and does not establish a fresh download or current mission status. No whole-record check date or reuse permission changed.

See: How review dates and quotation checks work, LUPEX, VIPER.

Dataset version 8c70b6f43a77 · 267 published records

• Site search now has a row for every page in the 3D menu. Seven had none: Everything in 3D, 3D Moon, 3D asteroids, Bennu's sample site in 3D, Ryugu in 3D, Apophis in 3D and How MOXIE made oxygen.
• The asteroid targets page now links to Ryugu's and Apophis's 3D shapes beside Bennu's. The Hayabusa2 record links to Ryugu's shape, and the Karman+ Mission 1 and OSIRIS-REx records link to Apophis's.
• Everything in 3D has two new cards for 3D tools that sit inside another page: the measuring tool on the lunar south pole page and the parts view in the MOXIE mission record. The MOXIE record's summary now links straight to that parts view.
• On the Bennu, Ryugu, Apophis and sample-site pages, a failed download no longer leaves a dead button: after a failed model download the button offers one more try, and after a failed script it asks for a page reload. Without JavaScript, a note says the 3D view needs it and the rest of the page does not.
• The Show buttons in the lunar south pole page's 3D pin list are taller, for easier tapping on a phone. No research record or reuse permission changed.

See: Everything in 3D, Asteroid targets, MOXIE mission record.

Dataset version 8c70b6f43a77 · 267 published records

• Corrected punctuation and spacing in three existing source quotations: Lunar Outpost's 2022 seed funding and NASA's MoonRanger instrument description in the Masten Mission One and MoonRanger records.
• The retained primary-source captures support these transcription corrections. Funding amounts, mission facts, source-access dates and record last-checked dates did not change.

See: Recorded events, Masten Mission One, MoonRanger.

Dataset version dba2bc234ba5 · 267 published records

• A new 3D page shows the ground where OSIRIS-REx collected its sample on Bennu, from NASA's models made before and after the touch. A slider moves our reduced copy of the before surface to our reconstruction of the after surface and colours the crater the touch left.
• TAGSAM, OSIRIS-REx's gas-driven sampler, now has an illustrative 3D explainer beside PlanetVac and TRIDENT, with what happened at Bennu kept apart from the design.
• The PlanetVac, TRIDENT and comparison pages now show their 3D view when it is opened; before, the flat diagram stayed in front of it. No research record or reuse permission changed.

See: Bennu's sample site in 3D, TAGSAM in 3D, Compare the three mechanisms.

Dataset version dba2bc234ba5 · 267 published records

• An existing NASA regolith-purchase award event now describes a confirmed liquidation plan reported effective for Masten, matching the retained court-docket wording.
• The underlying order and notice PDFs were not retrieved. The precise effective date, completion of liquidation and disposition of the regolith contract remain unestablished. Source-check dates, mission status, award amounts and authorization scope did not change.

See: Recorded events, Masten sources and history.

Dataset version 4d4ea15ef390 · 267 published records

• No fact changed. The official sources of 1 record were read again and still carry the quoted words, so its check date moved forward: Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.
• Published automatically after two different AI models checked the sources; no person reviewed this release first.

See: Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.

Dataset version cd0e3696f9d0 · 267 published records

• The full-screen Moon, asteroid and MOXIE views keep the still image hidden while loading, including slow starts. If the view cannot load, or JavaScript or WebGL is unavailable, the still and explanatory text remain available.
• The Moon introduction can be scrolled on small screens while its action buttons stay reachable above the date controls.
• The homepage search form fits narrow phone screens without pushing the page sideways. No research record or reuse permission changed.

See: The 3D Moon, Everything in 3D.

Dataset version cd0e3696f9d0 · 267 published records

• New 3D pages for asteroid Ryugu, from the shape JAXA's Hayabusa2 team built, and asteroid Apophis, from a preliminary radar shape in NASA's Planetary Data System. Both also open from their panels in the 3D asteroid view, like Bennu's.
• Ryugu, Bennu and Apophis are shown side by side at one scale on each shape page.
• A 3D menu on every page lists the 3D views, and a new page shows them all with pictures.
• The full-screen 3D pages now open dark and fade in their live view instead of first showing a different picture. If a view takes longer than ten seconds to start, the picture appears until it does.

See: Everything in 3D, Ryugu in 3D, Apophis in 3D.

Dataset version cd0e3696f9d0 · 267 published records

• The existing 2030 Intuitive Machines delivery record now explains NASA's planned MNP instrument on the Australian Space Agency's Roo-ver: volatile measurements related to lander-plume interactions, alongside a rover mobility and autonomy demonstration.
• This announcement does not establish a rover oxygen-extraction objective. No mission, participant, schedule or whole-record check date changed, and the separate company and mission leads remain held.
• If Bennu's 3D view fails, it returns to the still image and releases its controls, callbacks and graphics resources.

See: The planned delivery and its sources.

Dataset version e8c614291521 · 267 published records

• In the 3D asteroid view, Bennu's panel now opens NASA's shape model of Bennu over the orbits, with turning, zoom, a 100 m bar and a way back. Without scripts the link still goes to the Bennu page.
• The lunar-water steps now link their evidence to its feature on the 3D Moon, to every water-ice record there, and to the south pole's permanent shadow. No record changed.

See: 3D asteroids, Lunar water, step by step.

Dataset version e8c614291521 · 267 published records

• A new page turns asteroid Bennu's shape, from NASA's OSIRIS-REx laser-altimeter model reduced for phones. It shows shape and size only, not what Bennu is made of.
• The sample site is described in NASA's words but not marked, because the official pages read for it give no coordinates. No record changed.

See: Bennu in 3D.

Dataset version e8c614291521 · 267 published records

• Upcoming and the water guide preserve the distinction between CNSA's undated Chang'e-7 notice and NARIT's separately attributed 2027 report. Mission plans and selected guide summaries now follow the existing records instead of repeating fixed dates.
• Embedded event sources no longer reuse a record's numbered citation anchors. Source links now identify one source on each page. Evidence checks also prevent the oxygen guide from silently retaining superseded comparisons. No research records or reuse permissions changed.

See: Upcoming missions, Lunar water, Oxygen.

Dataset version e8c614291521 · 267 published records

• A visual comparison places the existing PlanetVac and TRIDENT schematics together, with independent steps, component selection, cameras and optional motion. On small screens the examples stack.
• Intended functions remain separate from attributed flight results and their limits. Both examples retain diagrams, explanations and source links without 3D. No research records or scientific claims changed.

See: Compare PlanetVac and TRIDENT.

Dataset version e8c614291521 · 267 published records

• A new page follows water from the Moon through five steps, from finding it to using it, and shows what has been shown, what is only proposed and what is still missing at each. It restates existing records and adds no new finding.
• A new page lets readers choose two or three missions or organizations and read them side by side, with a link to share that exact comparison. It is a reading aid, not a ranking.

See: Lunar water, step by step, Compare records.

Dataset version e8c614291521 · 267 published records

• Two company profiles add Paragon’s lunar water cleanup and electrolysis work and Pioneer Astronautics’ proposed regolith-to-oxygen and metals processes. The profiles distinguish development plans from completed tests and lunar results.
• Two NASA SBIR award records preserve their separate award values and award years. Award values are not presented as payments, and performance schedules are not used as exact award dates. Existing records and evidence holds are unchanged.
• On the 3D Moon, Stand here and Back up now preserve the keyboard return position. Closing the panel returns to the opening control, or to Whole Moon if it is unavailable.

See: Company profiles, Recorded funding and awards, Explore the Moon.

Dataset version be0752b3d429 · 263 published records

• The LCROSS mission record now links to NASA PDS instrument data and selected Earth-based observations, so readers can reach the data behind the mission.
• This is an archive-link addition, not a new analysis or a full mission recheck. Existing scientific conclusions, evidence gaps and the whole-record source-check date are unchanged.

See: LCROSS mission and data archive.

Dataset version 9fb0346bc6d1 · 263 published records

• Dataset JSON and lunar-site GeoJSON downloads now carry the data page's existing notice that quoted source excerpts belong to their publishers and are not covered by the dataset's CC BY 4.0 license.
• No record or reuse permission changed. Browsing and downloads remain free.

See: Downloads and existing license terms.

Dataset version 9fb0346bc6d1 · 263 published records

• No fact changed. The official sources of 1 record were reopened and still carry the quoted words, so these check dates moved forward: msn-ispace-m4.
• Published automatically after two different AI models checked the sources; no person reviewed this release first.

See: msn-ispace-m4.

Dataset version 3061184fb9ef · 263 published records

• The official pages that records cite are now read on a schedule, a few each night, and news sources are read daily. A page that no longer shows a quoted passage puts its record first in line for a recheck.
• Records that can still change are rechecked every 90 days and the rest every 180, with a planned date that has arrived or arrives within 30 days rechecked sooner. No record changed in this release.
• A recheck that found no change, and a new dated event attributed to one existing record, can now publish automatically once a second AI model has reviewed them. A change to a status, date or outcome still waits for the site owner.

See: How records are reviewed, Rechecks and methodology.

Dataset version 3061184fb9ef · 263 published records

• MAGPIE's recorded launch history now includes ispace's September 2025 target of 2028 beside its September 2026 plan for 2029. This recovers older announcements; it is not a newly announced slip.
• Masten Mission One remains cancelled. Its check against NASA's still-published termination audit is renewed with the manual document-reading method disclosed; November 2023 remains a former launch estimate, not a flight.
• The other nine priority planned-date records keep their existing check dates because current evidence is incomplete or conflicting.

See: MAGPIE's recorded launch plans, Masten's cancelled mission.

Dataset version 7bd71671e4a7 · 263 published records

• The status page compares PlanetVac, TRIDENT and MOXIE by purpose, reported result and limits, with links to their sources and interactive explanations.
• Selected wide tables with no link inside, including the one on Outcomes, can now be scrolled with a keyboard on small screens.
• The 3D Moon, 3D Asteroids and 3D MOXIE pages now mark their 3D view for screen readers.
• No record changed.

See: Compare the three technologies, What happened to each mission, 3D Moon.

Dataset version 7bd71671e4a7 · 263 published records

• PlanetVac and TRIDENT show readable step headings when scripts are unavailable. Interactive controls appear only after their handlers load; diagrams, explanations and sources remain available.
• No record changed.

See: How PlanetVac collects soil, How TRIDENT investigates soil.

Dataset version 7bd71671e4a7 · 263 published records

• The 3D Moon can now show one organization at a time: its markers stay lit, the globe turns to them and a panel lists its records by place, including south polar records with no exact site.
• Companies compared and each organization's page link to that view, or to the asteroid its records name.
• Unknown organization links are ignored, and closing How far restores the organization panel. Static CSV downloads keep formula-like text literal without changing numeric values or the JSON records.
• No record changed.

See: Interlune on the 3D Moon, Space mining companies compared.

Dataset version 7bd71671e4a7 · 263 published records

• Seven historical events are now reviewed: four Interlune financing notices, one Starpath financing notice, Firefly's IPO pricing announcement and the Firefly/Fleet lunar-payload agreement. Filing amounts sold, offering targets and IPO pricing are kept distinct, and separate financing notices are not added into a funding total.
• Amounts supported only by press coverage are labelled that way, including AstroForge's 2022 round. An unrelated primary-source confirmation of investment does not confirm its amount.
• DeepSpace-2 describes Intuitive Machines' arranged rideshare without assigning lander carriage. ispace-EUROPE's contract award is distinguished from payment, and the MSOLO agreement title names the service provider and beneficiary.
• The UAE2019 record identifies its ownership discussion as historical commentary. The newer Cabinet-resolution drafts remain unpublished because their operative primary texts are still unverified. The four record corrections appear on the Corrections page; their whole-record check dates are unchanged.

See: Companies compared, Funding and events, Corrections, Laws and permissions.

Dataset version 50b51a33414d · 256 published records

• Two source-linked explainers show PlanetVac gas-driven collection and TRIDENT's designed drilling motions, with optional interactive 3D schematics and complete diagrams and text without 3D.
• The intended functions stay separate from the reported lunar results: collected soil for PlanetVac, and individual working mechanisms alongside unmet mission goals for TRIDENT. No bore depth, successful drilled sample or lunar-water detection is implied.
• No record changed.

See: PlanetVac collection, TRIDENT drilling motions.

Dataset version 50b51a33414d · 256 published records

• The About page now names who runs the site, with a link to more about them.
• No record changed.

See: About this site.

Dataset version 50b51a33414d · 256 published records

• The Laws page now opens with the four countries that have a national law recorded here, side by side: who owns what is extracted, who grants permission and the government acts recorded, with each law's own words one click away.
• It also compares the international instruments by standing, parties and what they say about resources, and lists the UN working group's drafts.
• A new page compares 55 companies by the missions they have a role on and the awards, contracts, funding rounds and government acts on record, in alphabetical order and not as a ranking.
• The homepage now puts its questions above the 3D posters, and the status page asks its question in plain words: has anyone mined an asteroid or the Moon?
• Griffin Mission One and the METAL camera now say what to watch for: where the dates and landing site stand, what METAL would measure, and what would and would not change the record.
• No record changed.

See: Space resources law, Space mining companies compared.

Dataset version 50b51a33414d · 256 published records

• New full-screen page, 3D Asteroids: the 5 asteroids that mission records name, with Earth and Mars, around the Sun at estimated positions for a date you can move between 1 November 2025 and 1 November 2028. Positions use NASA/JPL's orbital elements in a simple two-body orbit and were checked against NASA/JPL's Horizons system at three dates.
• Each asteroid marker shows the furthest step on the evidence ladder and whether a record there is still to launch. Its panel keeps target, outcome and step apart, and gives NASA's NHATS round-trip figure with what it does and does not mean. The page does not estimate how much of any resource an asteroid holds or what it is worth.
• The homepage's band now has one poster per destination: the Moon, asteroids and MOXIE. Dive to the south pole stays on the Moon page, and the south pole page keeps its band. The full-screen pages link to each other in their header.
• The MOXIE record page now leads its section with a short summary, with the full account closed below. Playing the MOXIE story now starts smoothly after the page has been idle, and running the 3D views no longer builds up extra animation work the longer they run.
• Organization pages count each linked mission once. An organization with two roles on a mission shows one row with both roles, so Interlune reads 3 records, not 5.
• Country columns now say recorded here, and a line says zero means none recorded here, not that none exist. The destination guide is now titled Space mining organizations by destination, because it also lists agencies, research institutions and programmes. Its address is unchanged.
• Plans and outcomes names the milestone of each date, so VIPER reads Launch not recorded, Landing: Planned 2027 H2 (target). Each row also shows how far the record got for each resource, because a mission's outcome is not a resource result. A plan with recorded changes links to its comparison.
• The homepage gives three linked examples under the main answer: records at Sampled, the mission at Processing demo and the next planned mission. Organization pages and the directory say that an organization's level is recorded separately and is not a ranking of its linked missions' results.
• Search results for missions and organizations start with their current status. The empty search offers three example searches, and a search with no results also links the directory.
• Mission and organization pages count excerpts and publications, one web address counting as one publication. Independently reviewed now carries the Methodology page's own sentence and a link to it. Record pages have a Cite this record line.
• News and events says how to follow it by RSS and links to Site changes. An event with only company sources now says so, in place of a line saying no counterparty record was found. Coverage keeps its open-question and recheck tables in closed sections. The Moon map replaces its list of non-lunar records with one line of links. The glossary opens with ordinary terms and the evidence ladder; the legal section moves to the end.
• The MOXIE story opens with the recorded 122 g and the steps, with the quotes behind them. A quote block holding both the paper and the record now reads What the sources say. Long search titles and four long search descriptions are shorter.
• Three records corrected: Karman+ Mission 1 now records its reported early-2027 to mid-2028 launch change, and the existing news event links to the mission. The eXaminArt Phase II award uses plain-language obligation and outlay wording. No current mission date, phase, outcome or whole-record check date changed.

See: 3D Asteroids, Interlune, Plans and outcomes, Organizations by destination, How MOXIE made oxygen.

Dataset version 14920bb2d4a0 · 256 published records

• Chang'e-5 and Chang'e-6 now classify their volatile evidence as sampled material rather than remote detection. Their highest mission step remains scientific sampling; neither record claims extraction on the Moon.
• Chang'e-5's laboratory water yield is identified as an estimate from reaction stoichiometry. Chang'e-6's equivalent water abundances are distinguished from the solar-wind hydration profiles found in mare glass beads.
• The source quotations now support those distinctions. Mission dates, phases, outcomes and whole-record check dates are unchanged.
• A separate maintenance review retained eleven unresolved source holds without freshness credit. Manual NASA feed pagination reconciled the late-October interval; no new resource event was added and the recurring short-feed limitation remains.

See: Chang'e-5, Chang'e-6.

Dataset version 293957334496 · 256 published records

• Chang'e-7 now distinguishes CNSA's postponed 2026 window from the Thai payload partner NARIT's own 2027 statement and its explanation. No new CNSA launch date or current mission phase is inferred; the structured date and whole-record check date are unchanged.
• MOXIE's stored NASA quotations now support its summary's peak rate and purity and its first oxygen production. The measured values, actual dates, outcome and whole-record check date are unchanged.
• Removed five unsupported paper-wide absence statements from the older MOXIE parts explainer and the two remaining diagram/caption copies. The diagram explicitly identifies its simplified layout; supported quantities, quotations, chemistry and phase order are retained.
• No mission launch or landing date, phase, outcome, scheduled job or pilot setting changed.

See: Chang'e-7, MOXIE.

Dataset version 91baa59a7552 · 256 published records

• Each marker on the 3D Moon now shows the furthest step on the evidence ladder by any record at that site, in colour and in words. A ring still means a record there is not yet launched.
• A new panel, How far has anyone got?, lists the ladder with counts of lunar records, including the zero for commercial delivery, and the status answer. Its resource buttons filter the markers and counts, and list the records that have no marker.
• The Moon page has a table of the same numbers that works without JavaScript, and a key to the colours. A step says how far a record got, not that a resource is known to be at that spot or how much of it there is.
• Lunar mission pages link to their site on the 3D Moon, or to the south pole for records that name only that region.
• No record changed.

See: 3D Moon.

Dataset version 91baa59a7552 · 256 published records

• New page, 3D Moon: the Moon fills the screen, with the Sun and Earth computed for the time shown by a standard low-precision method, good to a few tenths of a degree. It is a picture, not a planning tool.
• Fly from the whole Moon to NASA's terrain around the south pole and on to native 240 m terrain around Mons Mouton, Cabeus and Haworth, with NASA's permanent-shadow map as a layer. It shows darkness, not ice.
• Each site and record on that page shows its resources and the furthest step on the evidence ladder, and the page carries the status answer. Everything shown is also listed there as ordinary links and text.
• New page, How MOXIE made oxygen: follow the air through the instrument as you scroll. MOXIE is a processing demo on this site's evidence ladder, the step before commercial delivery. The layout is illustrative, not NASA's drawing, and the page's statements rest on the quotes printed with them.
• The homepage has a band of three image links and is shorter: Scheduled next shows the nearest five missions and Recent events five, each with a link to all of them. Every page's menu has 3D Moon.
• The map page's embedded globe is gone. The south pole page keeps its terrain as Measuring tool (3D), and the MOXIE record keeps its view as Inspect the parts (3D).
• No record changed.

See: 3D Moon, How MOXIE made oxygen.

Dataset version 91baa59a7552 · 256 published records

• Added narrow Lunar Forge and Lunar Helium-3 Mining profiles. Their resource activity is company- or issuer-stated; no completed extraction, booked flight or current registry status is inferred.
• Expanded LUWEX laboratory evidence, clarified the ESA URECa activity budget and JGC operating-company selection. Conflicting recovered-water values and unsupported financial chronology remain explicit; existing source-check dates are preserved.
• Fixed black terrain after changing the Sun and switching height or permanent-shadow layers. Recorded mission-date charts preserve cancellation gaps and actual date bounds.
• Strengthened MOXIE source-support and model checks and motion preferences during loading. No mission date, status or scheduled research setting changed.

See: LUWEX, Lunar Forge, Lunar Helium-3 Mining, Recorded date changes, South-pole terrain.

Dataset version 5492711f010d · 254 published records

• Added a sourced eXaminArt profile for its proposed Lunar Materials Analyzer, with separate NASA Phase I and Phase II contract records. Regolith-feedstock monitoring is not recorded as extraction or prospecting, and the awards do not establish a flown instrument.
• Added Exploration Technology Group and its NASA Phase I peroxide-generation contract. Water and oxygen are described as inputs to a proposed system; no extraction role or resource-production result is assigned.
• Contract signing dates are separate from performance windows. Reported obligations and outlays are attributed to dated award snapshots; no company funding total or money-paid claim is inferred.
• Five records were added and one private discovery lead was replaced. No existing mission date, status or source-check date changed.

See: eXaminArt, Exploration Technology Group, NASA award records.

Dataset version 685641edfeb5 · 249 published records

• Added NASA's LOLA permanent-shadow map (Barker et al. 2023) as an optional layer on the south-pole terrain, averaged into 960 m cells. Permanently shadowed regions can contain cold traps; the layer does not measure temperature or detect ice.
• Each south-pole site panel gives, from the site's map point (a feature centre, not a landing point), the distance to the nearest mapped shadow pixel centre and the shadowed area within 10 km, computed from NASA's 20 m map. The height readout and measured profiles show each cell's shadowed share.
• Turn the Sun moves illustrative shading around the horizon. View from a site looks out from 100 m above a coarse 960 m model at a site's map point; it is not a landing panorama.
• Both 3D views name the next scheduled record they show, with a link to all upcoming plans.
• The MOXIE page explains how MOXIE turned Martian air into oxygen in 11 steps, with a process diagram, the 2021 run table and chart, the chemistry and the sources. Every step prints the quotes from the 2022 flight paper that it rests on.
• An optional 3D view follows the same steps on a schematic model inside MOXIE's published outer size, with Pull apart, Cut open, an illustrative gas flow and a run timeline. It loads only when Show in 3D is pressed.
• The paper's totals to the end of 2021 and the record's to 7 August 2023 are dated separately. No record changed.

See: South pole terrain in 3D, 3D globe, How MOXIE made oxygen.

Dataset version 685641edfeb5 · 249 published records

• Added the qualified historical Four Point profile and scoped DeepSpace-2, Griffin-1 and MAGPIE updates. Corporate and source conflicts remain explicit; whole-record mission check dates are unchanged.
• Pins open sourced mission panels; the region panel includes records without a plotted site. Added All, Flown and Planned filters, a launch-year slider and Play; landing-only plans appear at All years.
• The south-pole view estimates heights from the NASA-derived 960 m grid and provides approximate distances and elevation profiles, plus height colouring. These are model-derived estimates, not new point measurements or engineering surveys.
• Added site deep links, fullscreen access and labels that avoid other labels and pins.

See: Four Point, 3D globe, South pole terrain in 3D.

Dataset version 011fb919ba52 · 248 published records

• Added FibreCoat, OxEon Energy, Colorado School of Mines, Dioxide Materials and CU Aerospace, with sources separating proposed work, ground tests and the shared MOXIE result.
• Added OxEon as a MOXIE contributor, limited to its solid-oxide electrolysis stack. Mission results, phase and schedule were unchanged.
• Retired the five replaced private discovery leads and the duplicate ASI discovery lead; the existing ASI and ORACLE records and their citations are unchanged.

See: FibreCoat, OxEon Energy, MOXIE.

Dataset version 9f61538fa763 · 243 published records

• Organization pages link their headquarters country to its country page, and each target (Moon, near-Earth asteroids, main-belt asteroids, Mars) to that section of the companies-by-destination guide.
• The organizations list links each country to its country page.
• The organizations, missions, laws, authorizations and countries lists, and every country page, point to their topic guides.
• No record changed.

See: Companies by destination, Space resources laws by country, Countries.

Dataset version 9f61538fa763 · 243 published records

• Added the Open University as ProSPA's developer and instrument provider within the Leonardo-led PROSPECT consortium, distinguishing the designed lunar-analysis and ISRU capability from a completed lunar result.
• Added Politecnico di Milano for its historical ESA payload-definition subcontractor role and company-attributed ground simulant experiments. The March 2018 source-date discrepancy and the historical October 2024 ORACLE partnership are explicit; later contract participation remains unresolved.
• Added the Open University to PROSPECT's participants, with its payload-builder role explicitly limited to ProSPA. Mission phase, planned dates and the existing source-check date are unchanged. Removed the two superseded institution discovery leads.

See: The Open University, Politecnico di Milano, PROSPECT and ProSPA.

Dataset version 67ad4bfad1d2 · 241 published records

• Added a rotatable 3D Moon to the Moon map: NASA's LRO colour and relief from the Scientific Visualization Studio's CGI Moon Kit (public domain), with a pin for each placed site at the same position the flat map uses. Relief shading is exaggerated and the colour is optimised for appearance, as the kit itself notes.
• Added a 3D relief model of the lunar south pole from 80°S to the pole, built from the LOLA laser-altimeter elevation grid in NASA's Planetary Data System (averaged to 960 m cells). Heights are exaggerated ×2 by default with a true-scale switch, and the low-Sun lighting is illustrative, not a model of real illumination or permanent shadow.
• Both views load only when asked for, run in browsers with WebGL 2, and leave the flat map, tables and site lists unchanged; every site in a 3D view is also in a plain list of links. The page still scrolls over the views: hold Ctrl (⌘ on a Mac) to zoom with a wheel, or use two fingers on a touch screen.

See: Moon map in 3D, South pole in 3D.

Dataset version 67ad4bfad1d2 · 241 published records

• The lunar south pole page's Not yet launched table excludes missions that have launched and are awaiting landing. Such missions remain on the general upcoming page when they have a planned landing date.
• Removed ASI's inferred funder role from ORACLE while retaining its payload-owner relationship. The cited releases establish the industrial contract and support, but do not explicitly identify the funding source; the evidence gap and correction history are now recorded. No mission date or source-check date changed.

See: South pole: not yet launched, ORACLE, Corrections.

Dataset version 1587c22f72a9 · 241 published records

• Added ORACLE, the Italian Space Agency's lunar oxygen-extraction payload, with the June 2025 contract under which OHB Italia is to design, build and test it up to the flight model. No host mission, launch date or contract value is stated; the 2024 no-earlier-than-2028 target is shown as that year's plan, not a current date.
• Added LUNAR-RABBIT, the University of Tokyo's JAXA-funded flight-model instruments for measuring water and metal elements on the lunar surface, with the February 2026 grant decision kept separate from JAXA's October 2025 selection date. ispace and Obayashi are listed by the university as cooperating institutions with no stated role, so they are not shown as participants.
• Added Torres Orbital Mining with its NASA SBIR Phase I contract for a sealed regolith sample-handling intake; the captured federal obligation is a dated snapshot, not a payment, and no test result is claimed.
• Added the Italian Space Agency, OHB Italia and the University of Tokyo as organizations, each limited to its role in these projects; the three discovery leads these records replace were removed.
• Reader fixes after a first-time-reader test: contract, award, grant and funding lines in short lists now say they are not a test, flight or delivery result; organization pages describe the Targeted step as work aimed at a resource rather than a mission; the data page explains how to download only filtered rows; the lunar south pole page opens with the records that have not flown, nearest planned date first; same-day release notes are numbered; and the upcoming table shows when each record was last checked.

See: ORACLE, LUNAR-RABBIT, Torres Orbital Mining, South pole: not yet launched, Data.

Dataset version d256ffb68e61 · 232 published records

• Added source-linked AeroFly and Space Lab profiles, distinguishing funded lunar-resource technology development from extraction or flight results.
• Added three distinct NASA Phase II contract records. Cumulative federal obligations are attributed to the captured record date rather than shown as money paid on the original signing date; Space Lab’s conflicting performance schedules remain explicit.
• Removed the two superseded private discovery leads after independent review; no existing mission, authorization or legal-framework record changed.

See: AeroFly, Space Lab, Coverage.

Dataset version bd170df6018f · 227 published records

• Recheck results and their independent acceptance must identify the same captured evidence and record versions. Failed or unfinished rechecks are shown in the weekly queue, even when an earlier report is recent.
• Filtered CSV downloads keep negative latitude and longitude values as numbers while still protecting text cells against spreadsheet formulas.
• Griffin Mission One's evidence note now acknowledges Voyager's no-earlier-than-November 2026 launch target. This corrects the statement that no launch month had been published; the conflicting schedule sources remain unresolved, and its planned dates and whole-record check date have not advanced.

See: Moon map, Griffin Mission One, Corrections.

Dataset version dadf407a25fe · 227 published records

• Each of the 10 lunar target sites now has its own page, with the IAU Gazetteer's centre, size and feature number and every mission record that names the site.
• A new page lists the 22 mission records aimed at the lunar south pole: at Mons Mouton, Cabeus and Haworth crater, or naming only the south polar region.
• The Moon map has latitude and longitude labels, outlines each named feature's extent, links each marker to its page, and ends with a table of all 37 lunar records showing where each is placed and why.
• Five lunar records are now placed: Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 4 and MoonRanger at the centre of Haworth crater, whose rim Firefly names; the Canadian Lunar Rover Mission under the south polar region; Blue Origin Oasis-1 as an orbiter; and the ESA lunar ISRU demonstration as having no recorded site. They were previously listed as having no surface site.
• New downloads: lunar sites as CSV, JSON and GeoJSON (Moon coordinates, not Earth), and a plain-text guide to the site for AI assistants at llms.txt.
• Page titles and search descriptions now start with the answer: a mission's launch date or outcome, an organization's headquarters, status and most recent funding round in this dataset, a law's status and number of parties, and the laws in effect in each country.
• Organization pages show how many funding rounds this dataset records and the most recent one. Each amount is shown as its source states it, and amounts are never added together; rounds still under review are not listed.
• The organizations list is now titled Space mining companies and organizations.
• In the short lists on the map, status and outcomes pages, each entry's status now sits on its own line under its name.
• Fourteen records, including VIPER, Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 2, Intuitive Machines IM-4, ispace Mission 4, LUPEX and ESA PROSPECT, were rechecked against official pages captured on 31 October, and their last-checked dates moved to that day. No published fact changed.

See: Moon map, Lunar south pole, Data, Organizations, Missions.

Dataset version c91bcd18aff0 · 227 published records

• The Corrections page now lists the corrections recorded in published records' histories, with what each fact said before and what it says now, and offers the list as CSV and JSON.
• Pages of organizations listed only for context now show their record history, so each listed correction also appears on its record's page.
• The organization and mission lists can save the rows the filters currently show as a CSV file.
• No record changed.

See: Corrections, Organizations, Missions.

Dataset version c91bcd18aff0 · 227 published records

• Each record now shows when its next recheck is due, beside the date it was last checked.
• A "Suggest an update" link on each record opens an email with the record's name, page address and dataset version filled in.
• This page: what changed in each release.
• The mission list, the Moon map and the asteroid page link to one another.
• Pages print on white without menus or filters, and printed source links show their web address.
• Search and the page-not-found page are kept out of search engines; record pages in the sitemap carry the date each record was last checked.
• No record changed.

See: Rechecks, Missions.

Dataset version c91bcd18aff0 · 227 published records

• New page: the asteroids that mission records name, with NASA/JPL data on size, spectral class, orbit knowledge and the speed change a round trip needs, plus the ten asteroids with the lowest round-trip speed change on NASA's NHATS list. It gives no value estimates.
• New records: Hayabusa2 (shown as science context), Prospector-X (stalled), Karman+ Mission 1 and Aureon Space Systems.
• New funding events: Fleet Space Technologies' Series B (2021) and Series C (2023), and the 2016 investment in Metalysis.

See: Asteroid targets.

Dataset version 3f3b53ce3853 · 220 published records

• The ESA lunar ISRU demonstration record now states why ESA is named as the payload owner, and its summary reads as a plan.
• The LUWEX project and the Aqualunar Challenge are shown as concluded, in their own section of Plans and outcomes.

See: Plans and outcomes.

Dataset version e6ec7b01cb6f · 220 published records

• The menus are grouped as Directory, News and schedule, and About the data. News and events can be filtered by type, resource and text, the laws page opens with policy updates, and an About page was added.
• Policy news recorded: Artemis Accords signings through Vietnam, the 78th signatory (28 October 2026); the US Office of Space Commerce's request of 20 August 2026 for expressions of interest in a voluntary mission authorization pilot; and the consolidated draft principles for space resource activities issued by the chair and vice-chair of the UN COPUOS working group (a non-binding draft; nothing has been adopted).
• New records: Outward Technologies, Astroport Space Technologies, Canadian Strategic Missions Corporation, Space Applications Services, the LUWEX consortium, the Aqualunar Challenge, Blue Origin's Oasis-1 orbiter and ESA's lunar ISRU demonstration mission (not flown).
• Also added or updated: the UAE's Federal Decree-Law No. 46 of 2023 on the space sector, verified and added; a late-2027 landing target for VIPER; and the Artemis Accords record's count of 78 signatories.

See: News and events, Laws and policy.

Dataset versions b3dd8fd6ca7b, 63dfcb939c4b, 63b59a1e3298 · 206 published records

• Twelve missions with planned dates were rechecked against their sources. No planned date moved. NASA now names a Falcon Heavy for Griffin-1 and Interlune METAL, and an H3 is named for the UAE asteroid-belt mission.
• New records: Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 4, the MoonRanger rover, the Puli Lunar Water Snooper, Puli Space Technologies, the Canadian Lunar Rover Mission (cancelled in March 2026), Canadensys Aerospace, JGC Holdings and Cislune. The Canadian Space Agency was added as a counterparty.
• Corrections after review: Blue Ghost Mission 4's objective now credits the award announcements, and DeepSpace-2's link to Vestri is stated as an inference. Griffin-1 is listed without a map point because NASA (Nobile Crater) and Voyager (near Mons Mouton) name different sites; Interlune METAL, carried on Griffin-1, follows it.
• Schedule history for VIPER, RESILIENCE, Prospect Moon and Masten now files each date under the milestone its source names. RESILIENCE no longer shows an unsourced 2023 arrival date.

See: Schedule changes, Moon map.

Dataset version 7af58d09b7c7 · 197 published records

• Search across every published record, with a search box on the home page.
• A schematic Moon map of the lunar sites named in mission records. Records that name only a region, an orbit or no site are listed, not plotted.
• Schedule changes: every recorded change to a mission's planned dates. A repair later the same day labelled the milestone of each date and compared only like milestones.
• Coverage and gaps: what is published, what is held back and which facts are still unknown.
• Plans and outcomes: each resource mission's earliest recorded launch plan beside its recorded phase and outcome.
• An RSS feed of dated events, and a share image for links.
• These three releases changed only pages; no record changed.

See: Search, Moon map, Schedule changes, Coverage and gaps, Plans and outcomes.

Dataset versions dc6d57c3d39e, 7af58d09b7c7 · 197 published records

• New organizations: SolSys Mining, Maana Electric, Takasago Thermal Engineering, Ethos Space and Redwire.
• Prospect Moon and HALO were reviewed in full. HALO's replacement carrier is still unresolved.

Dataset version d340cbee28d9 · 192 published records

• The lunar water guide separates an absence of reported results in the cited NASA sources from a finding that there were none, and attributes a side landing to the host lander.
• No record changed.

See: Lunar water.

Dataset versions 0f77bbca5765, f1e203c85cf9, 32ef49c0c9cf, 568ff5c406b8, d340cbee28d9 · 192 published records

• The first two releases that day changed only pages; dataset 0f77bbca5765 had been live since 5 October.
• Upcoming no longer lists five historical awards and contracts attached only to closed missions; they stay on the timeline and their mission pages. Its planned-launch tables leave out ended, stalled and cancelled missions.
• Mission pages show the next step separately, and unknown roles and hosts stay visible. Directory filters can be shared as links, and the chart's bars link to the matching organizations.
• The Intuitive Machines CLPS south-pole delivery (a 2026 NASA award) had shown 2030 as a launch year; 2030 is now its landing target, with no launch date.
• Six evidence clarifications, including Blue Ghost Mission 2's landing area near Nassau crater and the conflicting UAE landing years.
• Japan's Space Activities Act: its commencement on 15 November 2018 is distinguished from the start of applications in November 2017.
• Voyager Technologies and ConsenSys gain legal-name aliases. Bradford Space, ConsenSys, Rocket Lab, the US Department of Energy and Voyager Technologies had been shown as active although their status was not researched; it now reads unknown.