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Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium

Consortium funded by NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate and run by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as part of NASA's Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative; it gathers government, academic, non-profit and private participants to identify lunar surface technology needs in areas that include in-situ resource utilization.

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Facts

Headquarters
United States
Type
Consortium
Status
Activeas of 2026-11-10. NASA's LSII page, reread on 10 November 2026, continues to describe LSIC's ongoing collaboration in the present tense. This is activity evidence from NASA, not a corporate-register or founding-date check; the consortium home page remained unreadable to the plain-text fetcher.
Roles
None stated
Targets
Moon
Also known as
LSIC
Website
lsic.jhuapl.edu/

Open evidence gaps

  • Founding year (reported as 2020) not confirmed from a primary page; the consortium home page did not show its text when checked.
  • Whether NASA should be recorded as the parent organization, because it funds the consortium, or left unset because APL runs it, was not decided.

Sources

3 excerpts from 3 publications

One web address counts as one publication.

  1. [1]Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative
    NASA Space Technology Mission DirectorateGovernment recordAccessed 2026-11-10Supports: summary, parent relationship, status
    The Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC), funded by NASA STMD, brings together government, academia, non-profit institutions, and the private sector
    Quote matched the source text when accessed.
  2. [2]LSII Initiative and Leadership
    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (LSIC)Government recordAccessed 2026-09-25Supports: summary, role
    new technologies must be deployed, especially regarding power systems, in situ resource utilization, dust mitigation, excavation and construction, and access and operations within extreme environments
    Quote matched the source text when accessed.
  3. [3]LSIC Mission
    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (LSIC)Government recordAccessed 2026-09-25Supports: summary
    Identify lunar surface technology needs and assess the readiness of relative systems and components
    Quote matched the source text when accessed.

Cite this record

SpaceMiningData, “Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium”, dataset version a00fa2c68a45, built 2026-11-11, https://spaceminingdata.com/organizations/lunar-surface-innovation-consortium.html. Record checked 2026-09-25.