Organizations

38 companies, agencies and institutions working on space resources, with the highest step of evidence each has reached.

Role Highest evidence 38 of 38 shown

Organization	Country	Targets	Roles	Highest evidence	Status
Asteroid Mining CorporationUK company incorporated in March 2016 that developed the SCAR-E six-legged robot prototype for asteroid and lunar surface work and signed a…	United Kingdom	Near-Earth asteroid, Moon	Rover / mobility	No level assigned	Dormant
Astrobotic TechnologyPittsburgh lunar lander company whose Peregrine Mission One (January 2024) carried NASA hydrogen- and volatile-measuring instruments but…	United States	Moon	Lander / transport	Targeted	Active (subsidiary)
AstroForgeUS company that states its goal is to extract platinum group metals from near-Earth asteroids. It has flown a low-Earth-orbit refinery…	United States	Near-Earth asteroid	Prospecting, Processing / ISRU	Claimed	Active
Blue OriginKent, Washington launch and lunar-lander company. Its resource work consists of Blue Alchemist, a molten-regolith-electrolysis process…	United States	Moon	Processing / ISRU, Lander / transport	Claimed	Active
China National Space AdministrationChina's national space agency. It returned lunar samples with Chang'e-5 (2020) and Chang'e-6 (2024), is preparing the Chang'e-7 south-pole…	China	Moon, Near-Earth asteroid	Prospecting, Processing / ISRU	No level assigned	Active
Deep Space IndustriesUS company founded in 2012 to pursue asteroid mining that later concentrated on the Comet water-based electrothermal thruster and the…	United States	Near-Earth asteroid	Prospecting	No level assigned	Absorbed
European Space AgencyIntergovernmental European space agency. Its 2019 Space Resources Strategy covers 2020-2030 with the Moon as the first target; it develops…	France	Moon	Prospecting, Instrument / drill, Processing / ISRU	No level assigned	Active
European Space Resources Innovation CentreSpace-resources research and business-incubation centre in Luxembourg, established in August 2020 by the Luxembourg Space Agency and the…	Luxembourg	Moon	Processing / ISRU	No level assigned	Active
Firefly AerospaceTexas launch and spacecraft company (Nasdaq: FLY since August 2025) whose Blue Ghost Mission 1 landed in Mare Crisium on 2 March 2025 and…	United States	Moon	Lander / transport	Targeted	Active
Fleet Space TechnologiesAustralian geophysical exploration and satellite company whose SPIDER seismic payload is listed on Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 2 (no…	Australia	Moon	Prospecting, Instrument / drill	Targeted	Active
HeliosIsraeli company, set up in 2018 out of an Israel Space Agency innovation workshop, developing molten regolith electrolysis to extract…	Israel	Moon	Processing / ISRU	Claimed	Active
Honeybee RoboticsSpace robotics and mechanisms company (Altadena, California and Longmont, Colorado) that builds sampling and drilling hardware, including…	United States	Moon	Instrument / drill	Sampled	Active (subsidiary)
ICON Technology, Inc.Austin, Texas construction-technology company developing the Olympus lunar construction system under a NASA SBIR Phase III contract; NASA…	United States	Moon, Mars	Processing / ISRU	Claimed	Active
Indian Space Research OrganisationIndia's national space agency. Chandrayaan-1 (2008-2009) carried NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, whose data showed hydroxyl/water signatures…	India	Moon	Prospecting	No level assigned	Active
InterluneSeattle company that states it will harvest helium-3 (and later other resources) from lunar regolith and return the helium-3 to Earth. As…	United States	Moon	Prospecting, Extraction, Processing / ISRU	Targeted	Active
Intuitive MachinesHouston lunar lander company (Nasdaq: LUNR) whose IM-2 lander Athena carried NASA's PRIME-1 ice-drill and mass-spectrometer suite, Lunar…	United States	Moon	Lander / transport	Targeted	Active
ispace EUROPE S.A.Luxembourg subsidiary of ispace, inc. that built the Tenacious micro-rover, lost with the Mission 2 lander in June 2025 before deployment…	Luxembourg	Moon	Rover / mobility, Prospecting	Targeted	Active (subsidiary)
ispace technologies U.S., inc.Colorado-based U.S. subsidiary of ispace, inc. that was developing the APEX 1.0 lander as a Draper subcontractor for NASA CLPS task order…	United States	Moon	Lander / transport	No level assigned	Active (subsidiary)
ispace, inc.Tokyo-based lunar lander company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market (code 9348) whose two landing attempts (April 2023 and…	Japan	Moon	Lander / transport, Rover / mobility	Targeted	Active
Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyJapan's national space agency. Its resource-related work centers on the Lunar Polar Exploration mission (LUPEX / Chandrayaan-5) with ISRO…	Japan	Moon, Near-Earth asteroid	Prospecting, Rover / mobility	No level assigned	Active
Karman+Asteroid-mining startup headquartered in Denver, Colorado (relocated from the Netherlands in 2022) that states it plans to excavate…	United States	Near-Earth asteroid	Prospecting, Extraction	Claimed	Active
Lunar OutpostGolden, Colorado rover developer that holds a 2020 NASA contract to collect and sell lunar regolith for $1; its MAPP rover reached the Moon…	United States	Moon	Rover / mobility, Prospecting	Targeted	Active
Lunar Resources, Inc.Houston, Texas industrial technology company (SBIR awards since 2019) developing molten regolith electrolysis reactors to extract oxygen…	United States	Moon, Mars	Processing / ISRU	Claimed	Active
Lunar Surface Innovation ConsortiumConsortium funded by NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate and run by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as part…	United States	Moon		No level assigned	Active
Luxembourg Space AgencyLuxembourg's national space agency, established by the Ministry of the Economy in 2018. It leads the SpaceResources.lu initiative (launched…	Luxembourg	None stated		No level assigned	Active
Magna Petra Corp.U.S. company that states it intends to prospect for, extract and return lunar helium-3; its first concrete step is a planned rover-borne…	United States	Moon	Prospecting, Extraction	Targeted	Active
Masten Space Systems, Inc.Mojave, California rocket-lander company (founded 2004) that held a NASA CLPS task order to land resource-prospecting instruments at the…	United States	Moon	Lander / transport	Targeted	Dissolved
MetalysisUK metal-powder producer using the FFC Cambridge solid-state electrolysis process; with ESA funding (contract 4000131940, 2020) it produced…	United Kingdom	Moon, Mars	Processing / ISRU	Claimed	Active
Moon Express, Inc.U.S. company founded in 2010 to land robotic spacecraft on the Moon and pursue lunar resources. In its August 2016 announcement, Moon…	United States	Moon	Lander / transport, Prospecting	Claimed	Dormant
National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationUS civil space agency. Its space-resources work includes the MOXIE oxygen-production demonstration on Mars (2021-2023), lunar…	United States	Moon, Mars, Near-Earth asteroid	Prospecting, Processing / ISRU, Instrument / drill, Rover / mobility	No level assigned	Active
Planetary ResourcesUS asteroid-prospecting company founded in 2009 that flew two Earth-orbit technology demonstrators, Arkyd-3R (2015) and Arkyd-6 (2018, with…	United States	Near-Earth asteroid	Prospecting	Claimed	Absorbed
Sierra SpaceU.S. space company that built the carbothermal oxygen production reactor used in NASA's Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) ground…	United States	Moon	Processing / ISRU	Claimed	Active
SpaceResources.lu initiativeLuxembourg government initiative launched in February 2016 and now led by the Luxembourg Space Agency, aimed at creating a legal…	Luxembourg	Moon, Near-Earth asteroid		No level assigned	Active
SpaceXUS launch and spacecraft company whose June 2026 EU securities prospectus lists asteroid mining among planned future activities; it has…	United States	Near-Earth asteroid, Main-belt asteroid		Claimed	Active
Starpath RoboticsHawthorne, California startup that states it will mine water ice at the lunar South Pole with rovers and process it into propellant. NASA…	United States	Moon, Mars	Prospecting, Extraction, Processing / ISRU, Rover / mobility	Claimed	Active
TransAstraLos Angeles-area company (headquarters stated as Pacoima, California) developing asteroid-capture bags, solar-thermal propulsion, and…	United States	Near-Earth asteroid	Prospecting, Extraction, Processing / ISRU	Claimed	Active
UAE Space AgencyFederal space agency of the United Arab Emirates. A 2023 law-firm summary of Cabinet Decisions issued under the 2019 space-sector law…	United Arab Emirates	Main-belt asteroid	Prospecting	No level assigned	Active
Venturi AstrolabHawthorne, California lunar rover company. Its FLIP rover is to carry Interlune's helium-3 camera on Astrobotic's Griffin-1 lander, and it…	United States	Moon	Rover / mobility	No level assigned	Active
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Counterparties listed for context

5 organizations

Acquirers, launch providers and other counterparties that appear in the records above. Their own space-resources status is not researched and they are not counted.

Organization	Why it appears
Bradford Space	Spacecraft propulsion and components company that acquired Deep Space Industries in January 2019.
ConsenSys	Blockchain software company that acquired Planetary Resources in 2018.
Rocket Lab	Launch company that signed a 2015 launch contract with Moon Express.
U.S. Department of Energy	U.S. federal department whose Isotope Program is the counterparty in Interlune's announced helium-3 purchase agreement and which made a 2024 award to Interlune.
Voyager Technologies	Space and defense technology company that completed its acquisition of Astrobotic in July 2026.