Astroport Space Technologies
San Antonio, Texas company (founded in 2020, by its own account) developing ways to turn lunar regolith into construction material for landing pads and roads, with a Luxembourg subsidiary, Astroport Space Technologies S.à r.l. (Astroport Europe), announced in April 2023. NASA has funded it through SBIR and STTR awards since 2021, including a 2024 STTR Phase II on bulk regolith handling for landing-pad site preparation and a 2025 STTR Phase II for Brickbot, a subscale technology demonstrator for lunar surface construction, intended to excavate, sieve and melt regolith and form brick tiles. In March 2022 the European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC) selected it as one of five start-ups for the pre-incubation phase of the first cohort of its Start-up Support Programme. Its reported work is Earth-based; no flight booking for Brickbot was found.
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Resources and evidence
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| Resource | Evidence | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Regolith | Claimed | says it will |
| Metals (general) | Claimed | says it will |
| Volatiles | Claimed | says it will |
Demonstrated
Earth-based work only. Government records confirm NASA SBIR/STTR funding (SBIR.gov lists five Phase I and three Phase II awards totalling $3,675,939 since 2021, one of them a U.S. Air Force Phase II for landing-surface fabric) and ESRIC's March 2022 selection for three-month pre-incubation. Company-stated: between 2024 and 2025 it advanced Brickbot regolith conveyance and feed system capabilities under its NASA STTR Phase II. No NASA-published test results were retrieved, and none of the sources reviewed describes Astroport flight hardware or a booked flight.
Claimed or planned
Astroport says it uses native lunar resources to build infrastructure such as landing pads and roads. Its company-supplied listing in the Luxembourg Space Agency's 2026 Space Directory says its core technology converts lunar regolith into construction feedstock and describes a molten-regolith furnace with outputs for structural feedstock, metal extraction and volatile recovery. NASA award records on SBIR.gov: STTR Phase I (2021, $131,416) for an induction furnace-nozzle to form regolith bricks; STTR Phase I (2022, $149,968) for landing-pad site preparation and blast shield construction; STTR Phase II 80NSSC24CA021 ($844,773, 2024-02-15 to 2026-02-14) for bulk regolith handling; SBIR Phase I (2023, $149,988) for the Brickbot furnace-nozzle 2.0; STTR Phase I (2023, $149,995) for a regolith conveyance, filtering and feed system; STTR Phase I (2024, $149,991) for a deployable surface cover; and STTR Phase II (2025, $849,994) for the Brickbot subscale demonstration, whose listed NASA shortfalls include excavation of surface regolith for ISRU commodities production. Amounts and years are from SBIR.gov pages read on 2026-10-29.
Facts
- Headquarters
- United States
- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 2020
- Status
- Activeas of 2026-08-19. Recent dated activity: a news item on the company website dated 19 August 2026 announcing a partnership with XelerateVR, and an SBIR.gov record of a 2025 NASA STTR Phase II award. Not a corporate-register check.
- Roles
- Processing / ISRU, Extraction
- Targets
- Moon
- Also known as
- Astroport Space Technologies, Inc.; Astroport Space Technologies S.à r.l.; Astroport Space Technologies SARL; Astroport Europe
- Website
- astroportspace.com
Open evidence gaps
- No launch, lander booking or date for a Brickbot flight was found; the company website lists a 'TRL 7 - Flight Demo Unit Brickbot' step without a date or carrier.
- The contract number and period of performance of the 2025 Brickbot STTR Phase II ($849,994) were not read; the SBIR.gov portfolio gives year and amount only.
- Headquarters street address differs: SBIR.gov gives 232 Canada Verde St, while the company website gives 110 E. Houston Street (both San Antonio, Texas).
- The Luxembourg subsidiary rests on the 2023 company release, the company website and the 2026 LSA directory; no Luxembourg business-register (RCS) extract was read.
- No evidence was found that Astroport advanced from ESRIC's three-month pre-incubation to the two-year incubation phase (which carries a grant of up to 200,000 euros).
- The metal-extraction and volatile-recovery outputs rest only on the company-supplied LSA directory listing; no NASA or ESA award for them was found.
- Company-stated partnerships (Vermeer, April 2026; Venturi Astrolab MOU, February 2026; XelerateVR, August 2026) were seen only as headlines on the company website; the full releases were not read.
- The relationship to Exploration Architecture Corporation (XArc), which the company calls its parent venture firm, is company-stated; XArc has no record in the dataset, so parent_id is null.
Sources
20 excerpts from 6 publicationsOne web address counts as one publication.
The purpose of the Brickbot development is to demonstrate molten tile deposition technology for lunar surface construction of roads, landing pads, and planar surface pavements.
The Brickbotproject will demonstrate in the actual operating environment technical solutions for several steps of the lunar construction process using a single robotic platform for various technology demonstrations
369 - Excavation of granular (surface) regolith for ISRU commodities production
1584 - Produce manufacturing and construction feedstock from extracted in-situ resources
232 CANADA VERDE ST SAN ANTONIO, TX, 78232-1141 USA
Year of first award: 2021
Contract Number: 80NSSC24CA021
February 15, 2024 Award Start Date February 14, 2026 Award End Date
Astroport uses lunar dust - or regolith - and transforms it into bricks and materials for 3D printing lunar infrastructures.
Following the first call for applications, the European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC) has selected the five start-ups to participate in the "Start-up Support Programme” (SSP) and begin their pre-incubation in April 2022.
announce their joint partnership for the launch of Astroport Space Technologies S.à r.l. (Astroport Europe)
Astroport is a deep tech startup founded in 2020, operating as a technology venture arm of Exploration Architecture Corporation (XArc), a space architecture consulting design and engineering firm established in 2007.
Astroport was one of 5 companies competitively selected in 2022 by ESRIC for their first cohort of companies to go through the 3-month pre-incubation course.
Astroport Space Technologies doing business as Astroport Europe
Its core technology stack converts lunar regolith into durable construction feedstock, enabling end-to-end, 3D printing-based fabrication of surface infrastructure on the Moon and beyond.
Molten regolith furnace with configurable outputs for structural feedstock, metal extraction, and volatile recovery
Astroport Space Technologies SARL 16, Rue de Nassau L-2213 Luxembourg
Based in San Antonio, Texas, the company was founded in 2020 with the vision to design, deploy, and operate lunar landing ports for safe, reliable, and efficient spaceflights to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
EL PASO, TX / ACCESS Newswire / August 19, 2026 / Astroport Space Technologies and XelerateVR today announced a strategic partnership to make lunar construction safe and
Between 2024 and 2025, Astroport Space Technologies advanced key regolith conveyance and feed system capabilities under its NASA STTR Phase II Brickbot technology
Cite this record
SpaceMiningData, “Astroport Space Technologies”, dataset version a00fa2c68a45, built 2026-11-11, https://spaceminingdata.com/organizations/astroport-space-technologies.html. Record checked 2026-10-29.