Paragon Space Development Corporation
NASA selected Paragon for NextSTEP-2 Track 2 component development and testing in simulated space environments in 2018. Paragon describes IHOP water purification and electrolysis for lunar water processing and possible use on Mars, plus ICICLE cold-trap collection and coarse purification of extracted water; these are ground-development activities and company capability claims, without a demonstrated extraterrestrial processing result in the captured evidence.
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Resources and evidence
Each resource shows the highest step primary sources support. How the ladder works.
| Resource | Evidence | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Water ice | Claimed | says it will |
| Oxygen | Claimed | says it will |
Demonstrated
NASA announced Paragon's selection for component development and testing in simulated space environments in 2018. The selection announcement does not establish that the selected testing was performed or completed. The captured sources establish no completed extraterrestrial water or oxygen production and no flight of IHOP or ICICLE.
Claimed or planned
Paragon says IHOP combines water purification and electrolysis for lunar water processing, with Mars applicability. It describes ICICLE as a freeze-distillation cold trap for water collection and coarse purification. These capability descriptions and the selected simulated-environment development scope remain at claimed on this dataset's evidence ladder; the captured ISRU page describes pursuing integrated testing opportunities without documenting a completed test.
Facts
- Headquarters
- United States
- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 1993
- Status
- Activeas of 2026-10-05. Paragon's 5 October 2026 announcement names a new vice president for Business Development & Growth and describes the company's current operations. This supports active status as of that announcement; NASA's 2018 selection separately establishes the historical resource-development role.
- Roles
- Processing / ISRU
- Website
- www.paragonsdc.com/
Open evidence gaps
- The undated ISRU page supplies company capability descriptions. NASA's 2018 selection is not evidence that the selected work was completed or that an extraterrestrial processing demonstration occurred.
- No dated current IHOP or ICICLE test report, flight manifest, completed resource-production result, or resource delivery was captured.
- The page mentions generic asteroid applicability of ICICLE. No near-Earth or main-belt asteroid project is identified; neither asteroid target category is inferred.
- NASA's approximately $10 million estimate covered all selected companies and remained subject to negotiation. No Paragon-specific amount is inferred.
Sources
7 excerpts from 3 publicationsOne web address counts as one publication.
Component-level development and testing in simulated space environments is the focus for Track 2 selections, which are: BlazeTech Corporation, Woburn, Massachusetts Paragon Space Development Corporation, Tucson, Arizona
water purification and electrolysis into an integrated system optimized for lunar water processing and capable of the same on Mars.
cold trap
Hydrogen Oxygen Production
10/5/2026
today named Micah Webb vice president of Business Development & Growth.
Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Tucson, Arizona
Cite this record
SpaceMiningData, “Paragon Space Development Corporation”, dataset version a00fa2c68a45, built 2026-11-11, https://spaceminingdata.com/organizations/paragon-space-development.html. Record checked 2026-11-05.