ConsortiumUnited StatesActive
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.
No level assigned
Facts
- Headquarters
- United States
- Type
- Consortium
- Status
- Activeas of 2026-09-25. NASA LSII page and LSIC pages accessed 2026-09-25 describe the consortium in the present tense.
- 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 sourcesThe Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC), funded by NASA STMD, brings together government, academia, non-profit institutions, and the private sector
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
- [3]LSIC Mission
Identify lunar surface technology needs and assess the readiness of relative systems and components