Space mining companies and organizations
75 companies, agencies and institutions working on space resources, with the highest step of evidence each has reached.
An organization's level is recorded separately and is not a ranking of its linked missions' results. How the ladder works.
Compare the companies: what each has flown and plans next, with awards, funding and government authorizations.
Guide: Organizations by destination.
75 of 75 shown
| Organization | Country | Targets | Roles | Highest evidence | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AeroFly LLCU.S. company listed in Brookings, South Dakota in federal award records, developing lunar-regolith conveyance and auger-based water-vapor… | United States | Moon | Extraction, Processing / ISRU | Targeted | Active |
| Aqualunar Challenge (UK–Canada lunar water purification prize)Joint UK–Canada challenge prize, launched on 17 January 2024, for technologies to purify water from ice buried in lunar soil so it can be… | United Kingdom | Moon | None stated | No level assigned | Concluded |
| 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 |
| Astroport Space TechnologiesSan Antonio, Texas company (founded in 2020, by its own account) developing ways to turn lunar regolith into construction material for… | United States | Moon | Processing / ISRU, Extraction | Claimed | Active |
| Aureon Space SystemsTokyo-based start-up (legal name 株式会社オーレオンスペースシステムズ, Aureon Space Systems Inc.; founded October 2025, according to its website) that says… | Japan | Other | Extraction, 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 |
| Canadensys Aerospace CorporationCanadian space company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario (the CSA's 2022 announcement gives Bolton, Ontario). It led the industrial and… | Canada | Moon | Rover / mobility | No level assigned | Active |
| Canadian Space AgencyCanada's national space agency, established by the Canadian Space Agency Act with its principal office in the greater Montreal area. Its… | Canada | Moon | None stated | No level assigned | Active |
| Canadian Strategic Missions CorporationCanadian company founded in 2020 as the Canadian Space Mining Corporation and now named Canadian Strategic Missions Corporation (CSMC)… | Canada | Moon | Processing / ISRU, Prospecting | 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 |
| CisluneLos Angeles-area start-up (Rosemead, California, in NASA award records) that develops excavation, site-preparation and regolith-processing… | United States | Moon | Extraction, Processing / ISRU | Targeted | Active |
| Colorado School of MinesU.S. research university included for the Ice Diggers lunar-excavation research team with Lunar Outpost. Its February 2024 report describes… | United States | Moon | Extraction | Targeted | Unknown |
| CU Aerospace L.L.C.U.S. company included for NASA STTR Phase I project 80NSSC24PB225 with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The proposal studies… | United States | Mars | Processing / ISRU | Targeted | Unknown |
| 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 |
| Dioxide Materials, Inc.U.S. company included for NASA SBIR Phase I project 80NSSC25C0188, developing an electrochemical pump to capture and pressurize Martian… | United States | Mars | Processing / ISRU | Targeted | Unknown |
| Ethos Space Corp.U.S. company developing lunar-regolith melting and processing technology. A 2025 NASA Phase I SBIR award supports proposed thermal-storage… | United States | Moon | Processing / ISRU | Claimed | Unknown |
| 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 |
| eXaminArt LLCCompany named EXAMINART, LLC on the NASA award snapshots and eXaminArt LLC on the selection abstract. The SBIR I contract was signed on… | Moon | None stated | Claimed | Unknown | |
| Exploration Technology Group Corp.Federal recipient of NASA SBIR Phase I contract 80NSSC25C0203 for a high-test peroxide generation system described as producing… | Moon, Mars | None stated | No level assigned | Unknown | |
| FibreCoat GmbHGerman materials company included for MoonFibre, its proposed conversion of lunar regolith into fibres and textiles for infrastructure. ESA… | Germany | Moon | Processing / ISRU | Targeted | Unknown |
| 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 |
| Four PointPoland-origin venture selected for ESRIC incubation in October 2022, with stated plans for autonomous lunar-regolith excavation and… | Moon | Processing / ISRU, Extraction | Claimed | Unknown | |
| 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 |
| Italian Space AgencyItaly's national space agency. In this dataset it is the agency behind ORACLE, a payload project to demonstrate oxygen extraction from… | Italy | Moon | Processing / ISRU | No level assigned | 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 |
| JGC Holdings CorporationYokohama-based Japanese engineering group. Its overseas EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) operating company, JGC Corporation… | Japan | Moon | Processing / ISRU | Targeted | 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 ForgeCompany website describes laser sintering of lunar regolith, sieved to a 75-150 micrometre fraction, into structural material. It states a… | Moon | Processing / ISRU | Claimed | Unknown | |
| Lunar Helium-3 Mining, LLCArizona limited liability company whose SEC Form C describes an early-stage plan to develop technology for detecting, extracting, storing… | Moon | Prospecting, Extraction | Claimed | Unknown | |
| Lunar OutpostGolden, Colorado rover developer that was awarded a 2020 NASA contract to collect and sell lunar regolith for $1; its MAPP rover reached… | 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 | None stated | No level assigned | Active |
| LUWEX consortium (Horizon Europe project 101081937)Consortium of the EU-funded Horizon Europe research project LUWEX (grant 101081937, 1 November 2022 to 31 December 2024), coordinated by… | Germany | Moon | Processing / ISRU | Claimed | Concluded |
| 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 | None stated | No level assigned | Active |
| Maana ElectricLuxembourg company developing electrochemical processing of lunar regolith. ESA selected it for its space-resources accelerator, and… | Luxembourg | Moon | Processing / ISRU | Claimed | Unknown |
| 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 |
| OHB Italia S.p.A.Italian space company. ASI and OHB Italia announced on 23 June 2025 that OHB Italia is prime contractor for ORACLE, with responsibility for… | Italy | Moon | Processing / ISRU | Targeted | Active |
| Outward TechnologiesBroomfield, Colorado company (legal name Blueshift, LLC, doing business as Outward Technologies) that develops lunar regolith-processing… | United States | Moon | Processing / ISRU | Claimed | Active |
| OxEon EnergyU.S. developer and manufacturer of solid-oxide systems, included for its contribution to NASA's MOXIE Mars oxygen experiment. NASA names… | United States | Mars | Processing / ISRU | Processing demo | Unknown |
| Paragon Space Development CorporationNASA selected Paragon for NextSTEP-2 Track 2 component development and testing in simulated space environments in 2018. Paragon describes… | United States | Moon, Mars | Processing / ISRU | Claimed | Active |
| Pioneer AstronauticsPioneer Astronautics is the named recipient of NASA SBIR awards for MMOST, a proposed lunar-regolith iron and oxygen production system, and… | Moon | Processing / ISRU | Claimed | Unknown | |
| 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 |
| Politecnico di MilanoItalian technical university covered here only for its named role as a subcontractor, with OHB System AG and BlueHorizon, in the OHB… | Italy | Moon | Processing / ISRU | No level assigned | Unknown |
| Puli Space TechnologiesBudapest space technology company, founded in 2010 and formerly a Google Lunar XPRIZE team, that develops a lightweight rover platform and… | Hungary | Moon | Prospecting, Instrument / drill, Rover / mobility | Targeted | Active |
| Redwire CorporationU.S. space-technology company developing the Mason tool suite to grade, compact and microwave-sinter lunar or Martian regolith into… | United States | Moon, Mars | Processing / ISRU | Targeted | Active |
| 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 |
| SolSys MiningNorwegian company researching mineral separation and lunar regolith simulants. Its website describes agriculture, beneficiation and… | Norway | Moon | Processing / ISRU | Claimed | Unknown |
| Space Applications ServicesBelgian space engineering company (Space Applications Services NV/SA, Sint-Stevens-Woluwe in Zaventem, near Brussels), which says it was… | Belgium | Moon | Processing / ISRU, Prospecting, Rover / mobility | Targeted | Active |
| Space Lab Technologies, LLCU.S. company listed in Boulder, Colorado in agency award records, developing EcoMine bioregenerative mineral-mining concepts for lunar… | United States | Moon | Extraction, Processing / ISRU | Targeted | 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 | None stated | 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 | None stated | 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 |
| Takasago Thermal Engineering Co., Ltd.Japanese engineering company developing lunar water electrolysis and thermal extraction of water from lunar regolith. Its electrolyzer flew… | Japan | Moon | Extraction, Processing / ISRU | Targeted | Active |
| The Open UniversityUK university covered here for developing and providing ProSPA, the sample-analysis instrument within ESA's PROSPECT lunar sampling and… | United Kingdom | Moon | Prospecting, Processing / ISRU | No level assigned | Unknown |
| The University of TokyoJapanese national university. In this dataset it is the representative institution for LUNAR-RABBIT, a JAXA Space Strategy Fund project to… | Japan | Moon | Prospecting | No level assigned | Active |
| Torres Orbital Mining Inc.U.S. company that says it develops sealed robotic systems to capture, contain and transfer abrasive material without releasing dust, and… | United States | Moon | Instrument / drill | Targeted | 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 organizationsAcquirers, 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 named as the acquirer of Planetary Resources' assets in an announcement of 31 October 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. |