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| AeroFly LLCStatus: active. U.S. company listed in Brookings, South Dakota in federal award records, developing lunar-regolith conveyance and auger-based… | Organization |
| Aqualunar Challenge (UK–Canada lunar water purification prize)Status: concluded. Joint UK–Canada challenge prize, launched on 17 January 2024, for technologies to purify water from ice buried in lunar soil so it… | Organization |
| Asteroid Mining CorporationStatus: dormant. UK company incorporated in March 2016 that developed the SCAR-E six-legged robot prototype for asteroid and lunar surface work and… | Organization |
| Astrobotic TechnologyStatus: active (subsidiary). Pittsburgh lunar lander company whose Peregrine Mission One (January 2024) carried NASA hydrogen- and volatile-measuring… | Organization |
| AstroForgeStatus: active. US company that states its goal is to extract platinum group metals from near-Earth asteroids. It has flown a low-Earth-orbit… | Organization |
| Astroport Space TechnologiesStatus: active. San Antonio, Texas company (founded in 2020, by its own account) developing ways to turn lunar regolith into construction material… | Organization |
| Aureon Space SystemsStatus: active. Tokyo-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… | Organization |
| Blue OriginStatus: active. Kent, Washington launch and lunar-lander company. Its resource work consists of Blue Alchemist, a molten-regolith-electrolysis… | Organization |
| Bradford SpaceSpacecraft propulsion and components company that acquired Deep Space Industries in January 2019. | Organization (context) |
| Canadensys Aerospace CorporationStatus: active. Canadian space company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario (the CSA's 2022 announcement gives Bolton, Ontario). It led the industrial… | Organization |
| Canadian Space AgencyStatus: active. Canada's national space agency, established by the Canadian Space Agency Act with its principal office in the greater Montreal area.… | Organization |
| Canadian Strategic Missions CorporationStatus: active. Canadian company founded in 2020 as the Canadian Space Mining Corporation and now named Canadian Strategic Missions Corporation… | Organization |
| China National Space AdministrationStatus: active. China's national space agency. It returned lunar samples with Chang'e-5 (2020) and Chang'e-6 (2024), is preparing the Chang'e-7… | Organization |
| CisluneStatus: active. Los Angeles-area start-up (Rosemead, California, in NASA award records) that develops excavation, site-preparation and… | Organization |
| Colorado School of MinesStatus: unknown. U.S. research university included for the Ice Diggers lunar-excavation research team with Lunar Outpost. Its February 2024 report… | Organization |
| ConsenSysBlockchain software company named as the acquirer of Planetary Resources' assets in an announcement of 31 October 2018. | Organization (context) |
| CU Aerospace L.L.C.Status: unknown. U.S. company included for NASA STTR Phase I project 80NSSC24PB225 with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The proposal… | Organization |
| Deep Space IndustriesStatus: absorbed. US company founded in 2012 to pursue asteroid mining that later concentrated on the Comet water-based electrothermal thruster and… | Organization |
| Dioxide Materials, Inc.Status: unknown. U.S. company included for NASA SBIR Phase I project 80NSSC25C0188, developing an electrochemical pump to capture and pressurize… | Organization |
| Ethos Space Corp.Status: unknown. U.S. company developing lunar-regolith melting and processing technology. A 2025 NASA Phase I SBIR award supports proposed… | Organization |
| European Space AgencyStatus: active. Intergovernmental European space agency. Its 2019 Space Resources Strategy covers 2020-2030 with the Moon as the first target; it… | Organization |
| European Space Resources Innovation CentreStatus: active. Space-resources research and business-incubation centre in Luxembourg, established in August 2020 by the Luxembourg Space Agency and… | Organization |
| eXaminArt LLCStatus: unknown. Company named EXAMINART, LLC on the NASA award snapshots and eXaminArt LLC on the selection abstract. The SBIR I contract was signed… | Organization |
| Exploration Technology Group Corp.Status: unknown. Federal recipient of NASA SBIR Phase I contract 80NSSC25C0203 for a high-test peroxide generation system described as producing… | Organization |
| FibreCoat GmbHStatus: unknown. German materials company included for MoonFibre, its proposed conversion of lunar regolith into fibres and textiles for… | Organization |
| Firefly AerospaceStatus: active. Texas launch and spacecraft company (Nasdaq: FLY since August 2025) whose Blue Ghost Mission 1 landed in Mare Crisium on 2 March 2025… | Organization |
| Fleet Space TechnologiesStatus: active. Australian geophysical exploration and satellite company whose SPIDER seismic payload is listed on Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 2 (no… | Organization |
| Four PointStatus: unknown. Poland-origin venture selected for ESRIC incubation in October 2022, with stated plans for autonomous lunar-regolith excavation and… | Organization |
| HeliosStatus: active. Israeli company, set up in 2018 out of an Israel Space Agency innovation workshop, developing molten regolith electrolysis to extract… | Organization |
| Honeybee RoboticsStatus: active (subsidiary). Space robotics and mechanisms company (Altadena, California and Longmont, Colorado) that builds sampling and drilling… | Organization |
| ICON Technology, Inc.Status: active. Austin, Texas construction-technology company developing the Olympus lunar construction system under a NASA SBIR Phase III contract… | Organization |
| Indian Space Research OrganisationStatus: active. India's national space agency. Chandrayaan-1 (2008-2009) carried NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, whose data showed hydroxyl/water… | Organization |
| InterluneStatus: active. Seattle company that states it will harvest helium-3 (and later other resources) from lunar regolith and return the helium-3 to… | Organization |
| Intuitive MachinesStatus: active. Houston lunar lander company (Nasdaq: LUNR) whose IM-2 lander Athena carried NASA's PRIME-1 ice-drill and mass-spectrometer suite… | Organization |
| ispace EUROPE S.A.Status: active (subsidiary). Luxembourg subsidiary of ispace, inc. that built the Tenacious micro-rover, lost with the Mission 2 lander in June 2025… | Organization |
| ispace technologies U.S., inc.Status: active (subsidiary). Colorado-based U.S. subsidiary of ispace, inc. that was developing the APEX 1.0 lander as a Draper subcontractor for… | Organization |
| ispace, inc.Status: active. Tokyo-based lunar lander company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market (code 9348) whose two landing attempts (April 2023… | Organization |
| Italian Space AgencyStatus: active. Italy's national space agency. In this dataset it is the agency behind ORACLE, a payload project to demonstrate oxygen extraction… | Organization |
| Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyStatus: active. Japan's national space agency. Its resource-related work centers on the Lunar Polar Exploration mission (LUPEX / Chandrayaan-5) with… | Organization |
| JGC Holdings CorporationStatus: active. Yokohama-based Japanese engineering group. Its overseas EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) operating company, JGC… | Organization |
| Karman+Status: active. Asteroid-mining startup headquartered in Denver, Colorado (relocated from the Netherlands in 2022) that states it plans to excavate… | Organization |
| Lunar ForgeStatus: unknown. Company website describes laser sintering of lunar regolith, sieved to a 75-150 micrometre fraction, into structural material. It… | Organization |
| Lunar Helium-3 Mining, LLCStatus: unknown. Arizona limited liability company whose SEC Form C describes an early-stage plan to develop technology for detecting, extracting… | Organization |
| Lunar OutpostStatus: active. Golden, Colorado rover developer that was awarded a 2020 NASA contract to collect and sell lunar regolith for $1; its MAPP rover… | Organization |
| Lunar Resources, Inc.Status: active. Houston, Texas industrial technology company (SBIR awards since 2019) developing molten regolith electrolysis reactors to extract… | Organization |
| Lunar Surface Innovation ConsortiumStatus: active. Consortium funded by NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate and run by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory… | Organization |
| LUWEX consortium (Horizon Europe project 101081937)Status: concluded. Consortium of the EU-funded Horizon Europe research project LUWEX (grant 101081937, 1 November 2022 to 31 December 2024)… | Organization |
| Luxembourg Space AgencyStatus: active. Luxembourg's national space agency, established by the Ministry of the Economy in 2018. It leads the SpaceResources.lu initiative… | Organization |
| Maana ElectricStatus: unknown. Luxembourg company developing electrochemical processing of lunar regolith. ESA selected it for its space-resources accelerator, and… | Organization |
| Magna Petra Corp.Status: active. U.S. company that states it intends to prospect for, extract and return lunar helium-3; its first concrete step is a planned… | Organization |
| Masten Space Systems, Inc.Status: dissolved. Mojave, California rocket-lander company (founded 2004) that held a NASA CLPS task order to land resource-prospecting instruments… | Organization |
| MetalysisStatus: active. UK metal-powder producer using the FFC Cambridge solid-state electrolysis process; with ESA funding (contract 4000131940, 2020) it… | Organization |
| Moon Express, Inc.Status: dormant. U.S. company founded in 2010 to land robotic spacecraft on the Moon and pursue lunar resources. In its August 2016 announcement… | Organization |
| National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationStatus: active. US civil space agency. Its space-resources work includes the MOXIE oxygen-production demonstration on Mars (2021-2023), lunar… | Organization |
| OHB Italia S.p.A.Status: active. Italian space company. ASI and OHB Italia announced on 23 June 2025 that OHB Italia is prime contractor for ORACLE, with… | Organization |
| Outward TechnologiesStatus: active. Broomfield, Colorado company (legal name Blueshift, LLC, doing business as Outward Technologies) that develops lunar… | Organization |
| OxEon EnergyStatus: unknown. U.S. developer and manufacturer of solid-oxide systems, included for its contribution to NASA's MOXIE Mars oxygen experiment. NASA… | Organization |
| Paragon Space Development CorporationStatus: active. NASA selected Paragon for NextSTEP-2 Track 2 component development and testing in simulated space environments in 2018. Paragon… | Organization |
| Pioneer AstronauticsStatus: unknown. Pioneer Astronautics is the named recipient of NASA SBIR awards for MMOST, a proposed lunar-regolith iron and oxygen production… | Organization |
| Planetary ResourcesStatus: absorbed. US asteroid-prospecting company founded in 2009 that flew two Earth-orbit technology demonstrators, Arkyd-3R (2015) and Arkyd-6… | Organization |
| Politecnico di MilanoStatus: unknown. Italian technical university covered here only for its named role as a subcontractor, with OHB System AG and BlueHorizon, in the OHB… | Organization |
| Puli Space TechnologiesStatus: active. Budapest space technology company, founded in 2010 and formerly a Google Lunar XPRIZE team, that develops a lightweight rover… | Organization |
| Redwire CorporationStatus: active. U.S. space-technology company developing the Mason tool suite to grade, compact and microwave-sinter lunar or Martian regolith into… | Organization |
| Rocket LabLaunch company that signed a 2015 launch contract with Moon Express. | Organization (context) |
| Sierra SpaceStatus: active. U.S. space company that built the carbothermal oxygen production reactor used in NASA's Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD)… | Organization |
| SolSys MiningStatus: unknown. Norwegian company researching mineral separation and lunar regolith simulants. Its website describes agriculture, beneficiation and… | Organization |
| Space Applications ServicesStatus: active. Belgian space engineering company (Space Applications Services NV/SA, Sint-Stevens-Woluwe in Zaventem, near Brussels), which says it… | Organization |
| Space Lab Technologies, LLCStatus: active. U.S. company listed in Boulder, Colorado in agency award records, developing EcoMine bioregenerative mineral-mining concepts for… | Organization |
| SpaceResources.lu initiativeStatus: active. Luxembourg government initiative launched in February 2016 and now led by the Luxembourg Space Agency, aimed at creating a legal… | Organization |
| SpaceXStatus: active. US launch and spacecraft company whose June 2026 EU securities prospectus lists asteroid mining among planned future activities; it… | Organization |
| Starpath RoboticsStatus: active. Hawthorne, California startup that states it will mine water ice at the lunar South Pole with rovers and process it into propellant.… | Organization |
| Takasago Thermal Engineering Co., Ltd.Status: active. Japanese engineering company developing lunar water electrolysis and thermal extraction of water from lunar regolith. Its… | Organization |
| The Open UniversityStatus: unknown. UK university covered here for developing and providing ProSPA, the sample-analysis instrument within ESA's PROSPECT lunar sampling… | Organization |
| The University of TokyoStatus: active. Japanese national university. In this dataset it is the representative institution for LUNAR-RABBIT, a JAXA Space Strategy Fund… | Organization |
| Torres Orbital Mining Inc.Status: active. U.S. company that says it develops sealed robotic systems to capture, contain and transfer abrasive material without releasing dust… | Organization |
| TransAstraStatus: active. Los Angeles-area company (headquarters stated as Pacoima, California) developing asteroid-capture bags, solar-thermal propulsion, and… | Organization |
| U.S. Department of EnergyU.S. federal department whose Isotope Program is the counterparty in Interlune's announced helium-3 purchase agreement and which made a 2024 award to… | Organization (context) |
| UAE Space AgencyStatus: active. Federal space agency of the United Arab Emirates. A 2023 law-firm summary of Cabinet Decisions issued under the 2019 space-sector law… | Organization |
| Venturi AstrolabStatus: active. Hawthorne, California lunar rover company. Its FLIP rover is to carry Interlune's helium-3 camera on Astrobotic's Griffin-1 lander… | Organization |
| Voyager TechnologiesSpace and defense technology company that completed its acquisition of Astrobotic in July 2026. | Organization (context) |
| Arkyd-3 Reflight (A3R)Launched 2015-04-14, outcome unknown. Planetary Resources technology-demonstration small satellite launched to the International Space Station on… | Mission |
| Arkyd-6Launched 2018-01-12, succeeded. Planetary Resources 6U CubeSat launched on 12 January 2018 on India's PSLV-C40 to test spacecraft subsystems and a… | Mission |
| Astrobotic Peregrine Mission OneLaunched 2024-01-08, failed. Astrobotic's Peregrine lander launched 2024-01-08 on the first Vulcan flight carrying NASA instruments that measure… | Mission |
| Blue Moon Mark 1 (second lander) - VIPER deliveryIn development, landing 2027 H2 target. Blue Origin's second Blue Moon Mark 1 lander, which NASA says will carry the VIPER water-ice prospecting… | Mission |
| Blue Origin Oasis-1 lunar resource-mapping orbiter (Project Oasis, with Luxembourg)Announced. First mission of Project Oasis, which Blue Origin announced in 2025 as a multi-phase initiative to identify lunar resources from orbit… | Mission |
| Brokkr-1Launched 2023-04-15, partly succeeded. AstroForge's first spacecraft, a small satellite launched to low Earth orbit in April 2023 to demonstrate… | Mission |
| Canadian Lunar Rover Mission (CSA Lunar Rover Mission, LRM)Cancelled. Canadian Space Agency rover mission, built by a team led by Canadensys Aerospace under a $43M contract announced in November 2022, that… | Mission |
| Chandrayaan-1Launched 2008-10-22, succeeded. India's first lunar orbiter, launched on 22 October 2008 on PSLV-C11 and operated until contact was lost on 29 August… | Mission |
| Chang'e-5Launched 2020-11-24, succeeded. Chinese lunar sample-return mission launched on 24 November 2020 (Beijing time) that landed near Mons Ruemker in… | Mission |
| Chang'e-6Launched 2024-05-03, succeeded. Chinese lunar far-side sample-return mission launched on 3 May 2024 that landed in the South Pole-Aitken basin on 2… | Mission |
| Chang'e-7Manifested. Chinese lunar south-pole mission with an orbiter, a lander and a flying probe intended to reach a nearby crater, designed to survey water… | Mission |
| Chang'e-8In development, launch 2029 target. Planned Chinese lunar mission to the Leibnitz-Beta Plateau near the lunar south pole that CNSA says will work… | Mission |
| DeepSpace-2In development, launch 2027 Q1 target. AstroForge's second deep-space spacecraft, a 200-kilogram vehicle with Hall-effect electric propulsion… | Mission |
| Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) / MBR ExplorerIn development, launch window: 2028-03. UAE Space Agency mission whose MBR Explorer spacecraft is to fly past six main-belt asteroids and release a… | Mission |
| ESA lunar ISRU demonstration mission (oxygen-from-regolith payload; not flown)Stalled. European Space Agency plan for a lunar surface mission to show that oxygen or water can be produced from lunar regolith, with the ISRU… | Mission |
| Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 (Ghost Riders in the Sky)Launched 2025-01-15, succeeded. Firefly's Blue Ghost lander launched 2025-01-15, landed in Mare Crisium on 2025-03-02 and operated for more than 14… | Mission |
| Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 2 (Riders 2 the Dark)In development, launch no earlier than 2027. Firefly's second lunar mission, a Blue Ghost lander stacked on an Elytra Dark orbiter bound for the… | Mission |
| Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 4 (NASA CLPS task order CS-6, lunar south pole)In development, launch no earlier than 2029. Firefly's fourth lunar mission through NASA's CLPS initiative, awarded on 29 July 2025 as a USD 176.7… | Mission |
| Griffin Mission One (Griffin-1, NASA Moon Base II)In development, launch no earlier than 2026-11. First flight of Astrobotic's Griffin lander (Astrobotic now operates as Voyager Lunar Systems), a… | Mission |
| HAKUTO-R Mission 1 (ispace M1 lander)Launched 2022-12-11, failed. ispace's first lunar lander, launched 2022-12-11 on a Falcon 9, reached lunar orbit and began its landing sequence… | Mission |
| Hayabusa2 (Ryugu sample return)Launched 2014-12-03, succeeded. JAXA asteroid sample-return spacecraft launched on 3 December 2014 on H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 26. It arrived at… | Mission |
| Intuitive Machines CLPS south-pole delivery (2026 award, 2030 target)Announced, landing 2030 target. NASA awarded Intuitive Machines $180.4 million on 2026-03-27 to deliver seven payloads, five of them NASA's, to the… | Mission |
| Intuitive Machines IM-2 (Athena lander)Launched 2025-02-26, partly succeeded. Intuitive Machines' second Nova-C lander, Athena, launched 2025-02-26 and touched down near Mons Mouton on… | Mission |
| Intuitive Machines IM-4 (Nova-C lander, NASA CLPS task order CP-22)In development, launch 2027 target. Intuitive Machines' fourth Nova-C lander, which NASA lists for 2027 to deliver six NASA CLPS payloads to Mons… | Mission |
| ispace Mission 4 (ULTRA lander; formerly Mission 6)In development, launch 2029 target. Planned ispace ULTRA lunar lander mission (launch planned 2029) funded by a Japan Space Strategy Fund grant for… | Mission |
| Karman+ Mission 1 (High Frontier, Corvus spacecraft)In development, launch 2028 target. Karman+'s first spacecraft mission, a technology demonstration that the company's February 2025 funding release… | Mission |
| LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite)Launched 2009-06-18, succeeded. NASA spacecraft launched with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter on 18 June 2009. On 9 October 2009 its spent Centaur… | Mission |
| Lunar FlashlightLaunched 2022-12-11, failed. NASA/JPL CubeSat launched on 11 December 2022 to seek surface ice in permanently shadowed craters at the lunar south… | Mission |
| Lunar Outpost Lunar Voyage 1 (MAPP rover on IM-2)Launched 2025-02-26, failed. Lunar Outpost's MAPP rover flew on Intuitive Machines' IM-2 lander to perform the regolith collection under its $1 NASA… | Mission |
| Lunar TrailblazerLaunched 2025-02-26, failed. NASA small lunar orbiter designed to map the abundance, form and time variation of water on the Moon's surface. It… | Mission |
| LUNAR-RABBIT water and metal-element exploration instruments (University of Tokyo)In development. University of Tokyo-led project, funded through JAXA's Space Strategy Fund, to develop flight models of four instruments (a… | Mission |
| LUPEX / Chandrayaan-5 (Lunar Polar Exploration mission)In development, launch no earlier than 2028. Planned JAXA-ISRO lunar south-pole mission: JAXA provides the H3 launch and a rover (payload mass above… | Mission |
| Magna Petra HALO (Helium Availability of Lunar Origin) reconnaissance payloadIn development. Planned rover-borne measurement of low-molecular-weight lunar volatiles, intended to help infer helium-3 presence. ispace-EUROPE… | Mission |
| MAGPIE (Mission for Advanced Geophysics and Polar Ice Exploration) roverManifested, launch 2029 target. ESA-funded lunar rover mission, with ispace-EUROPE as mission prime, to investigate water ice, other volatiles and… | Mission |
| Mars 2020 Perseverance roverLaunched 2020-07-30, surface operations. NASA Mars rover that launched on 30 July 2020 and landed in Jezero Crater on 18 February 2021. It is… | Mission |
| Masten Mission One (XL-1 lander, NASA CLPS task order TO19C)Cancelled. Planned Masten XL-1 lander flight to the lunar south pole carrying NASA instruments, several aimed at lunar volatiles and resources… | Mission |
| METAL multispectral camera (Interlune / NASA Ames) on Griffin-1Manifested, launch 2026 H2 target. Multispectral camera that Interlune says it built with NASA Ames to image lunar regolith and estimate helium-3… | Mission |
| Moon Express MX-1E first lunar mission (Google Lunar XPRIZE attempt)Stalled. Planned single-engine robotic lander, contracted in 2015 to launch on Rocket Lab's Electron and covered by a favorable FAA payload review in… | Mission |
| MoonRanger micro-rover (Astrobotic / Carnegie Mellon University, Neutron Spectrometer System)Manifested, launch no earlier than 2029. Suitcase-sized autonomous micro-rover developed by Astrobotic (prime contractor), Carnegie Mellon University… | Mission |
| MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment)Launched 2020-07-30, succeeded. NASA instrument on the Perseverance rover that produced oxygen from Martian atmospheric carbon dioxide by solid oxide… | Mission |
| OdinLaunched 2025-02-26, failed. AstroForge's roughly 100-kilogram deep-space spacecraft, launched on 26 February 2025 (US time) as a secondary payload… | Mission |
| ORACLE lunar oxygen-extraction payload (Italian Space Agency)In development. Italian Space Agency (ASI) payload project to demonstrate on the Moon the extraction of oxygen from lunar regolith by a carbothermal… | Mission |
| OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer)Launched 2016-09-08, succeeded. NASA spacecraft launched on 8 September 2016 that collected material from near-Earth asteroid Bennu and delivered… | Mission |
| PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1)Launched 2025-02-26, partly succeeded. NASA payload combining the TRIDENT drill (built by Honeybee Robotics) and the MSOLO mass spectrometer, flown… | Mission |
| PROMISE (Polar Rover for Observation, Mapping, and In-Situ Exploration)In development, launch 2028 H2 target. Planned six-wheeled, nuclear-powered NASA rover for the Moon's South Pole, announced on 7 November 2026. NASA… | Mission |
| PROSPECT (Package for Resource Observation, in-Situ Prospecting for Exploration, Characterisation & Testing)Manifested, launch 2027 target. ESA drill (ProSEED) and miniature laboratory (ProSPA) package designed to drill beneath the lunar polar surface… | Mission |
| Prospect Moon (Interlune payload suite)In development. Interlune payload suite funded by a NASA SBIR Phase III contract (about $6.9 million, signed 2026-02-24). It is designed to collect… | Mission |
| Prospector-X (Deep Space Industries experimental nano-spacecraft, Luxembourg MoU 2016)Stalled. Experimental nano-spacecraft that Deep Space Industries (DSI) agreed to build and test in the United States and Luxembourg under a… | Mission |
| Puli Lunar Water Snooper (PLWS) on IM-2Launched 2025-02-26, outcome unknown. Miniature neutron spectrometer (10 x 10 x 3.4 cm, about 400 g) built by Hungary's Puli Space Technologies to… | Mission |
| SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon (ispace Mission 2, RESILIENCE lander)Launched 2025-01-15, failed. ispace's second lunar lander, RESILIENCE, launched 2025-01-15 on a Falcon 9 and attempted to land in Mare Frigoris; NASA… | Mission |
| TENACIOUS micro-rover (ispace-EUROPE)Launched 2025-01-15, failed. Micro-rover of about 5 kg built by ispace-EUROPE, with an Epiroc-developed shovel, to scoop and photograph lunar… | Mission |
| TransAstra 1-meter Capture Bag ISS demonstrationLaunched 2025-09, succeeded. A 1-meter inflatable Capture Bag delivered to the International Space Station in September 2025 and deployed inside… | Mission |
| VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)In development, landing 2027 H2 target. NASA ice-prospecting rover built for a 100-day mission at the lunar south pole. NASA announced on 17 July… | Mission |
| FAA-led interagency payload review: Moon Express MX-1E (2016)The FAA FY2016 Performance and Accountability Report records a favorable payload determination for the Moon Express MX-1E mission. Company releases… | Authorization |
| Japan Space Resources Act permit to ispace for HAKUTO-R Mission 1 (2022)On 4 November 2022 Japan's Prime Minister (Cabinet Office) granted ispace, inc. permit No. 衛星22-019 with a space resources business activity plan for… | Authorization |
| Luxembourg space resources mission authorisation to ispace EUROPE S.A. for the TENACIOUS micro-rover (2024)On 22 November 2024 Luxembourg granted ispace EUROPE S.A. an authorisation under the Law of 20 July 2017 for commercial exploration and use of space… | Authorization |
| Japan Space Resources Act permit to ispace for Mission 2 (RESILIENCE) (2024)On 17 December 2024 Japan's Prime Minister (Cabinet Office) granted ispace, inc. permit No. 衛星24-025 with a business activity plan to collect lunar… | Authorization |
| Artemis Accords (2020)Non-binding political commitments among signatory states on civil exploration of the Moon, Mars, comets and asteroids. Section 10 affirms that space… | Law |
| Hague International Space Resources Governance Working Group: Building Blocks for the Development of an International Framework on Space Resource Activities (2019)Non-binding building blocks adopted on 12 November 2019 by a multi-stakeholder working group (governments, industry, academia) to guide development… | Law |
| Japan: Act on Launching of Spacecraft, etc. and Control of Spacecraft (Space Activities Act, Act No. 76 of 2016)Japan's general space activities licensing law. Art. 20(1) requires a Prime Minister's permit for each satellite managed from ground equipment in… | Law |
| Japan: Act on the Promotion of Business Activities Related to the Exploration and Development of Space Resources (Act No. 83 of 2021)Japanese statute that adds a space resources business-activity plan to the satellite-management permit of the Space Activities Act, requires the… | Law |
| Luxembourg Law of 20 July 2017 on the exploration and use of space resourcesLuxembourg statute providing that space resources are capable of being owned and requiring a written mission authorisation from the ministers in… | Law |
| Moon Agreement (1979)UN treaty that declares the Moon and its natural resources the common heritage of mankind, bars property rights in natural resources in place, and… | Law |
| Outer Space Treaty (1967)UN treaty that sets the basic rules for space activities: no national appropriation of the Moon or other celestial bodies (Art. II), freedom of… | Law |
| U.S. Commercial Space Launch Activities (51 U.S.C. chapter 509) - payload review authorityU.S. launch and reentry licensing statute administered by the FAA. Section 50904(c) is the basis for FAA payload reviews of payloads that need no… | Law |
| U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015, Title IV (Space Resource Exploration and Utilization Act of 2015)U.S. statute (Pub. L. 114-90, Title IV) providing that a U.S. citizen engaged in commercial recovery of a space resource is entitled to resources… | Law |
| U.S. Executive Order 13914 (6 April 2020): Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space ResourcesPresidential executive order stating U.S. policy that Americans should have the right to engage in commercial exploration, recovery and use of space… | Law |
| U.S. Executive Order 14335 (13 August 2025): Enabling Competition in the Commercial Space Industry - Sec. 5 novel space activity authorizationExecutive order directing the Secretary of Commerce to propose an individualized mission authorization process for activities covered by OST Art. VI… | Law |
| U.S. presidential proclamation (3 November 2026): The American Declaration of Freedom in SpacePresidential proclamation stating that the solar system and all of outer space beyond Earth are the province of all humans and are open to… | Law |
| UAE Federal Decree-Law No. 46 of 2023 Concerning the Regulation of the Space SectorUAE federal decree-law that replaced Federal Law No. 12 of 2019 as the principal statute regulating the space sector. Article 8 keeps space-resource… | Law |
| UAE Federal Law No. 12 of 2019 on the Regulation of the Space Sector (space resources provisions)UAE federal space law that brought space resource exploration, extraction, exploitation and use within its permitting regime (Art. 18) and left the… | Law |
| UN COPUOS Legal Subcommittee Working Group on Legal Aspects of Space Resource Activities (draft initial recommended principles)Intergovernmental working group of the UN COPUOS Legal Subcommittee mandated to develop a set of initial recommended principles for space resource… | Law |
| NASA selects eight companies for CLPS 2 lunar deliveries ($10 billion combined maximum)2026-11-07. NASA selected eight companies as eligible to compete for future lunar surface delivery missions under CLPS 2: Blue Origin, Firefly… | Event |
| NASA award to Blue Origin to deliver the PROMISE rover ($94 million base)2026-11-07. NASA awarded Blue Origin a $94 million base contract to deliver the PROMISE rover to the lunar South Pole, with an option period worth an… | Event |
| Vietnam signs the Artemis Accords, the 78th signatory2026-10-28. Vietnam's Minister of Science and Technology signed the Artemis Accords in Ha Long on 28 October 2026, making Vietnam the 78th signatory.… | Event |
| eXaminArt NASA SBIR Phase II contract for the Lunar Materials Analyzer2026-10-27. NASA definitive contract 80NSSC27C0051, signed 2026-10-27, is titled as a Phase II SBIR for the Lunar Materials Analyzer (LuMA). The… | Event |
| Uzbekistan signs the Artemis Accords, the 77th signatory2026-10-19. Uzbekistan signed the Artemis Accords at a ceremony in Samarkand on 19 October 2026, becoming the 77th signatory. The Accords are a… | Event |
| NASA selects three PRISM payload suites for Moon Base, including the DISCO lunar-ice instrument2026-09-30. NASA selected three lunar-surface investigations through its PRISM program to fly on future CLPS deliveries. One, DISCO (principal… | Event |
| AeroFly NASA Phase II contract for auger-based lunar water-vapor extraction2026-09-28. The federal record identifies NASA SBIR Phase II contract 80NSSC26C0090, signed 2026-09-28, for sbir phase ii continuous auger-based… | Event |
| Artemis Accords reach 76 signatories after five signings in September 20262026-09-25. Djibouti (14 September), Albania (21 September), Croatia (23 September), Côte d'Ivoire (24 September) and San Marino (25 September)… | Event |
| Torres Orbital Mining NASA SBIR Phase I contract for a sealed regolith sample-handling intake2026-09-23. The federal record identifies NASA SBIR Phase I contract 80NSSC26C0357, signed 2026-09-23, for a non-ejective intake bit: a dual-stage… | Event |
| Luxembourg Space Agency leadership change2026-09-14. Ruy Pinto took office as interim CEO of the Luxembourg Space Agency on 14 September 2026 following the departure of long-time CEO Marc… | Event |
| Interlune SAFE offering (Form D signed 2026-09-14)2026-09-14. Interlune's Form D notice signed 2026-09-14 reports $5,000,000 sold of a $5,000,000 SAFE offering, with 1 reported investor and a first… | Event |
| ispace bank loan from Shizuoka Bank (3 billion yen)2026-09-09. ispace announced a board resolution for a 3 billion yen (about USD 19 million) three-year unsecured loan from Shizuoka Bank for working… | Event |
| Chang'e-7 cannot launch in its planned 2026 window2026-08-23. A China Manned Space Agency statement, published by CNSA on 23 August 2026, said the Chang'e-7 mission did not meet launch conditions and… | Event |
| Office of Space Commerce invites expressions of interest in a voluntary mission authorization pilot under Executive Order 143352026-08-20. A Federal Register notice (91 FR 53849) invited U.S. operators of novel in-space activities to express interest, by 5 October 2026, in a… | Event |
| Compulsory strike-off notice for Asteroid Mining Corporation Limited2026-08-18. Companies House published a first Gazette notice for compulsory strike-off of Asteroid Mining Corporation Limited on 18 August 2026; the… | Event |
| Japan Space Strategy Fund grant to ispace for polar high-precision landing (Mission 4)2026-08-07. ispace announced an 11.6 billion yen grant (ceiling 20 billion yen, subject to stage-gate reviews) under Phase 2 of Japan's Space… | Event |
| Interlune-Vermeer expanded partnership (lunar site-preparation tool)2026-07-30. Interlune and Vermeer announced an expanded partnership and a plan to deliver a mission-ready lunar site-preparation tool by 2028, to be… | Event |
| ESA MAGPIE Phase 2 contract to ispace-EUROPE (EUR 65 million)2026-07-24. ispace-EUROPE announced that ESA awarded it the EUR 65 million Phase 2 contract covering MAGPIE rover and payload development, transport… | Event |
| Karman+ first mission slips to mid-2028 and retargets to Apophis2026-07-21. Karman+ said its first mission's early-2027 launch slipped because its propulsion vendor could not deliver on time, that the new launch… | Event |
| Voyager Technologies acquires Astrobotic2026-07-10. Voyager reported in its June 30, 2026 Form 10-Q that it closed the acquisition of Astrobotic on 2026-07-10. The agreement provided $300… | Event |
| NASA CLPS CP-12 task order ended; ispace-U.S. subcontract to terminate2026-07-09. ispace disclosed that NASA and Draper mutually ended CLPS task order CP-12 effective 2026-07-09 (U.S. Mountain Time); ispace-U.S.'s… | Event |
| UN COPUOS working group issues consolidated draft principles for space resource activities2026-07. The chair and vice-chair of the COPUOS Legal Subcommittee's Working Group on Legal Aspects of Space Resource Activities issued a… | Event |
| NASA Lunar Terrain Vehicle Phase 1 task order to Lunar Outpost ($220 million)2026-05-26. NASA awarded Lunar Outpost $220 million under the Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services contract to build and deliver its Pegasus rover, aiming… | Event |
| TransAstra CRADA with the US Air Force Academy2026-05-14. TransAstra announced a two-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the US Air Force Academy to advance technologies for… | Event |
| ispace - University of Leicester payload service agreement for a lunar Raman spectrometer2026-05-13. ispace announced a payload service agreement to carry a University of Leicester Raman spectrometer, intended to determine lunar surface… | Event |
| Lunar Outpost $30 million Series B2026-05-07. Lunar Outpost announced a $30 million Series B led by Industrious Ventures. | Event |
| ispace ULTRA lander integration and mission renumbering2026-03-27. ispace announced it would merge the APEX 1.0 and Series 3 designs into the ULTRA lander with a new engine, renumbering its missions… | Event |
| NASA CLPS award to Intuitive Machines for a 2030 south-pole delivery ($180.4 million)2026-03-27. NASA awarded Intuitive Machines $180.4 million to deliver seven payloads to the south polar region, targeted for 2030, including… | Event |
| Interlune-Astrolab excavation integration study2026-03-03. Interlune and Astrolab announced a completed concept study to integrate Interlune excavation hardware on Astrolab's FLEX rover, with… | Event |
| NASA SBIR Phase III contract to Interlune for Prospect Moon2026-02-24. NASA awarded Interlune SBIR Phase III contract 80NSSC26C0002 ($6,893,204, signed 2026-02-24) for 'Prospect Moon', a lunar resource… | Event |
| JAXA Space Strategy Fund grant decision for the University of Tokyo's LUNAR-RABBIT instruments2026-02-10. The University of Tokyo reports that a grant under JAXA's Space Strategy Fund (second round) was decided on 10 February 2026 for its… | Event |
| Interlune SAFE offering (Form D signed 2026-01-28)2026-01-28. Interlune's Form D notice signed 2026-01-28 reports $500,000 sold of a $5,000,000 SAFE offering, with 6 reported investors and a first… | Event |
| NASA STTR Phase I contract to Interlune (lunar trenching)2026-01-27. NASA awarded Interlune STTR Phase I contract 80NSSC26C0029 ($150,000, signed 2026-01-27) for a scalable lunar trenching implement, with… | Event |
| ispace announces planned conclusion of the HAKUTO-R program2025-12-05. On 2025-12-05, ispace announced that its HAKUTO-R program, begun in September 2018 and covering Missions 1 and 2, was expected to… | Event |
| ispace - Kurita Water Industries strategic partnership on lunar water resources2025-12-04. ispace announced a strategic partnership agreement with Kurita Water Industries on business models, payload development and demonstration… | Event |
| ispace public offering and third-party allotments (18.2 billion yen)2025-10-06. ispace resolved on 2025-10-06 to issue new shares through a public offering and third-party allotments, including about 2 billion yen… | Event |
| ispace-EUROPE to provide MSOLO rover services for Magna Petra (USD 22 million PSA)2025-10-06. ispace-EUROPE announced a USD 22 million payload service agreement with Magna Petra to integrate NASA's MSOLO mass spectrometer on an… | Event |
| ispace - ElevationSpace MoU on a private lunar sample return mission2025-09-25. ispace announced an MoU with ElevationSpace to pursue a private mission returning a lunar sample to Earth, combining a planned ispace… | Event |
| NASA CCRPP contract to scale TransAstra Capture Bag to 10 meters2025-09-23. TransAstra announced a $2.5 million NASA Civil Commercial Research and Products Program contract, matched by $2.5 million in private… | Event |
| NASA SBIR Phase I contract for Exploration Technology Group peroxide generation2025-09-23. USAspending identifies NASA contract 80NSSC25C0203, signed 2025-09-23, for SBIR Phase I work on a high-test peroxide generation system… | Event |
| NASA CLPS task order to Blue Origin for VIPER delivery2025-09-19. NASA awarded Blue Origin a CLPS task order, with an option, to deliver the VIPER water-ice prospecting rover to the lunar South Pole in… | Event |
| Bluefors agreement to buy lunar helium-3 from Interlune2025-09-16. Interlune and Bluefors announced that Bluefors agreed to buy up to 10,000 liters of helium-3 a year for delivery from 2028 to 2037; both… | Event |
| Blue Alchemist completes critical design review2025-09-10. Blue Origin announced that Blue Alchemist completed its critical design review and that the next phase is an autonomous demonstration in… | Event |
| eXaminArt NASA SBIR Phase I contract for the Lunar Materials Analyzer2025-09-08. NASA definitive contract 80NSSC25C0201, signed 2025-09-08, is titled as an SBIR I Lunar Materials Analyzer (LuMA). The performance period… | Event |
| Texas Space Commission grant to Interlune (regolith simulant center)2025-09-02. Interlune announced on 2025-09-02 a grant of up to $4.84 million from the Texas Space Commission to develop lunar regolith simulants at a… | Event |
| AFWERX SBIR Direct-to-Phase II contract to Interlune (helium-3 separation)2025-08-26. The Department of the Air Force awarded Interlune contract FA864925P0440 ($1,249,990, signed 2025-08-26) to separate helium-3 from… | Event |
| Safran to supply electric propulsion for AstroForge's Vestri mission2025-08-11. Safran Defense & Space announced it was selected by AstroForge to deliver two EPS X00 electric propulsion systems for the Vestri asteroid… | Event |
| Firefly Aerospace IPO pricing announcement (19,296,000 shares at USD 45)2025-08-06. Firefly Aerospace announced pricing on 6 August 2025 of 19,296,000 IPO shares at USD 45 per share. The recorded USD 868,320,000 is shares… | Event |
| Interlune payload agreement with Astrolab (FLIP rover)2025-08-05. Interlune and Astrolab announced that an Interlune multispectral camera for estimating helium-3 will fly on Astrolab's FLIP rover on an… | Event |
| AeroFly NASA Phase II contract for vertical lunar-regolith conveyance2025-08-01. The federal record identifies NASA SBIR Phase II contract 80NSSC25C0087, signed 2025-08-01, for phase ii sbir vertical lunar regolith… | Event |
| ASI and OHB Italia announce the ORACLE payload contract2025-06-23. On 23 June 2025 the Italian Space Agency and OHB Italia announced that they had signed an industrial contract for ORACLE, under which OHB… | Event |
| ESA MAGPIE pre-Phase A and Phase 1 contracts to ispace-EUROPE (EUR 2.695 million aggregate)2025-06-03. ispace-EUROPE announced a Phase 1 extension of its ESA pre-Phase A contract (awarded 2024-12-12) for the MAGPIE polar-ice rover mission… | Event |
| ispace-U.S. Mission 3 moved from 2026 to no earlier than 20272025-05-09. ispace-U.S. announced an engine change to Agile Space Industries' VoidRunner for its APEX 1.0 lander and moved its Mission 3 (Team Draper… | Event |
| ispace - Takasago Thermal Engineering MoU on lunar thermal mining feasibility2025-05-09. ispace announced an MoU with Takasago Thermal Engineering for a feasibility study toward demonstrating Takasago's thermal-mining… | Event |
| Maybell Quantum agreement to buy lunar helium-3 from Interlune2025-05-07. Interlune announced that Maybell Quantum agreed to buy thousands of liters of helium-3 for yearly delivery from 2029 to 2035, for… | Event |
| US DOE Isotope Program agreement to buy lunar helium-3 from Interlune2025-05-07. Interlune announced that the DOE Isotope Program agreed to buy three liters of helium-3 harvested from the Moon, delivered on Earth no… | Event |
| Interlune-Vermeer joint development agreement and excavator prototype2025-05-07. Interlune and Vermeer announced a joint development agreement and unveiled a full-scale excavator prototype designed to process 100… | Event |
| NASA reports oxygen from lunar regolith simulant using Lunar Resources' LR-1 reactor2025-05-05. NASA Kennedy reported that its researchers and Lunar Resources ran molten regolith electrolysis in a vacuum chamber with the company's… | Event |
| Luxembourg's OST Article XI notification for ispace EUROPE's lunar activities2025-04-11. Luxembourg informed the UN Secretary-General under OST Art. XI of ispace EUROPE S.A.'s Mission 2 activities (regolith collection for NASA… | Event |
| NASA Kennedy-Magna Petra Cooperative Research and Development Agreement for MSOLO2025-04-02. NASA reported that it signed a reimbursable Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Magna Petra on April 2 (2025) under which… | Event |
| Japan's OST Article XI notification for ispace Mission 22025-03-19. Japan informed the UN Secretary-General under OST Art. XI of ispace Lander Mission 2 (Mare Frigoris, 60.5 N 4.6 W), listing a commercial… | Event |
| Karman+ $20 million seed round2025-02-19. Karman+ announced a $20 million seed round led by Plural and Hummingbird to develop its first technology demonstration mission and… | Event |
| NASA SBIR Phase II award to Lunar Resources for IMMORTAL molten regolith electrolysis anode2025. SBIR.gov lists a 2025 NASA SBIR Phase II award of USD 849,999 to Lunar Resources for IMMORTAL, a long-life molten regolith electrolysis anode… | Event |
| Fleet Space A$150M Series D2024-12-12. Fleet Space announced the close of an A$150M Series D led by Teachers' Venture Growth; the round funds its terrestrial ExoSphere… | Event |
| ispace - Magna Petra MoU on lunar resource exploration2024-12-10. ispace announced a memorandum of understanding with Magna Petra to collaborate on future missions transporting Magna Petra's helium-3… | Event |
| Lunar Outpost Series A (amount undisclosed)2024-11. Lunar Outpost announced a Series A round co-led by Type One Ventures and Industrious Ventures; no amount was disclosed. | Event |
| ispace and Asteroid Mining Corporation memorandum for lunar robot demonstration2024-10-09. ispace and Asteroid Mining Corporation announced a memorandum of understanding envisioning a future ispace lunar lander delivering AMC's… | Event |
| Space Lab NASA Phase II EcoMine contract2024-09-30. The federal record identifies NASA SBIR Phase II contract 80NSSC24CA217, signed 2024-09-30, for phase ii-ignite - ecomine -… | Event |
| Starpath Robotics equity offering (Form D signed 2024-08-23)2024-08-23. Starpath Robotics's Form D notice signed 2024-08-23 reports $6,000,000 sold of a $6,000,000 equity offering, with 33 reported investors… | Event |
| DOE Isotope Program grant to Interlune (terrestrial helium-3 separation)2024-07-24. The DOE awarded Interlune a project grant to separate helium-3 from U.S. natural-gas-derived helium (award DESC0024933, $264,694… | Event |
| NASA announces intent to discontinue VIPER2024-07-17. NASA announced it would stop VIPER development, citing cost increases, launch delays and the risk of further cost growth, and invited… | Event |
| NASA TechFlights grant to Interlune (regolith comminution)2024-06-27. NASA selected Interlune in its 2023 TechFlights round for parabolic-flight tests of a device to pulverize lunar regolith; Interlune… | Event |
| Starpath places second in NASA's Break the Ice Lunar Challenge2024-06. NASA reports Starpath won a cumulative $838,461 across three levels of Phase 2 of the Break the Ice Lunar Challenge (excavating and hauling… | Event |
| Interlune equity offering (Form D signed 2024-02-01)2024-02-01. Interlune's Form D notice signed 2024-02-01 reports $15,564,982 sold of a $17,689,981 equity offering, with 18 reported investors and a… | Event |
| NASA SBIR Phase I award to Lunar Resources for IMMORTAL molten regolith electrolysis anode2024. NASA awarded Lunar Resources a USD 149,999 SBIR Phase I contract for a long-life anode for molten regolith electrolysis to extract oxygen and… | Event |
| Japan METI SBIR grant funding notice to ispace (12 billion yen)2023-12-15. ispace announced on 2023-12-21 that it received a notice of funding of 12 billion yen (about USD 80 million) on 2023-12-15 under METI’s… | Event |
| DARPA selects Helios for the LunA-10 lunar architecture study2023-12-05. DARPA listed Helios among 14 companies selected for its LunA-10 capability study on integrated lunar infrastructure, which DARPA says… | Event |
| Firefly agreement to deliver Fleet Space SPIDER to the lunar far side2023-11-08. Firefly Aerospace announced an agreement with Fleet Space Technologies to deliver and operate the SPIDER seismic payload on Firefly's… | Event |
| NSF SBIR Phase I award to Interlune (regolith size sorting)2023-09-20. The National Science Foundation awarded Interlune an SBIR Phase I grant of $246,028 (award 2304616, signed 2023-09-20, performance… | Event |
| NASA Tipping Point award to Blue Origin for Blue Alchemist2023-07. NASA selected Blue Origin for a $34.7 million Tipping Point partnership to advance an end-to-end ISRU system designed to extract oxygen… | Event |
| Australian Space Agency Moon to Mars Demonstrator grant to Fleet Space2023-06. Fleet Space announced it received an A$4M Australian Space Agency Moon to Mars Demonstrator Program grant to develop a lunar geophysical… | Event |
| Fleet Space Technologies A$50 million Series C2023-05-24. Fleet Space Technologies announced it had completed a Series C round raising A$50 million, led by existing investor Blackbird, and said… | Event |
| ispace listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market2023-04-12. ispace announced on 2023-04-12 that its shares had been listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market that day. | Event |
| Blue Origin discloses Blue Alchemist (solar cells from regolith simulant)2023-02-10. Blue Origin disclosed Blue Alchemist, stating it had made working solar cells and transmission wire from lunar regolith simulants since… | Event |
| Saudi Arabia notifies withdrawal from the Moon Agreement2023-01-05. On 5 January 2023 Saudi Arabia notified the UN Secretary-General of its withdrawal from the Moon Agreement under Art. 20, effective 5… | Event |
| NASA SBIR Phase III award to ICON for Olympus lunar construction system2022-11-29. NASA awarded ICON a SBIR Phase III contract worth $57.2 million, running through 2028, to develop the Olympus construction system… | Event |
| Interlune SAFE offering (Form D signed 2022-08-19)2022-08-19. Interlune's Form D notice signed 2022-08-19 reports $1,850,000 sold of a $2,600,000 SAFE offering, with 5 reported investors and a first… | Event |
| Helios-Eta Space partnership on lunar oxygen liquefaction2022-08-09. Helios announced a partnership with Florida-based Eta Space to plan a lunar oxygen production and liquefaction plant, with Eta Space… | Event |
| AstroForge $13 million seed round2022-05-26. TechCrunch reported on 2022-05-26 that AstroForge closed a $13 million seed round led by Initialized Capital, with the company saying it… | Event |
| Lunar Outpost $12 million seed round2022-05. Lunar Outpost announced a closed $12 million seed round led by Explorer 1 Fund. | Event |
| Blue Origin agrees to acquire Honeybee Robotics2022-01-24. Blue Origin agreed to acquire Honeybee Robotics from Ensign-Bickford Industries, making it a wholly owned subsidiary; the deal was… | Event |
| NASA SBIR Phase I award to Pioneer Astronautics for ALTAWS2022. SBIR.gov lists NASA SBIR Phase I contract 80NSSC22PB157 to Pioneer Astronautics for Alkaline Low-Temperature Aluminum from Waste Slag, with a… | Event |
| Fleet Space Technologies US$26.4 million Series B2021-11-17. Fleet Space Technologies announced US$26.4 million in Series B funding, led with follow-on money from Artesian Venture Partners… | Event |
| ispace Series C round (approx. USD 46 million)2021-08-04. ispace announced contracted Series C funding of JPY 5.07 billion (approximately USD 46 million for reference) from seven investors led by… | Event |
| NASA lunar regolith purchase contract to Masten Space Systems, $15,0002020-12-03. NASA selected Masten Space Systems to collect lunar regolith and transfer ownership in place to NASA for $15,000, following a planned… | Event |
| NASA lunar regolith purchase contract to Lunar Outpost, $12020-12-03. NASA selected Lunar Outpost to collect lunar regolith and transfer ownership in place to NASA for $1. Lunar Outpost states NASA paid… | Event |
| NASA lunar regolith purchase contract to ispace Europe, $5,0002020-12-03. NASA selected ispace Europe (Luxembourg) to collect lunar regolith and transfer ownership in place to NASA for $5,000. ispace states… | Event |
| NASA lunar regolith purchase contract to ispace (Japan), $5,0002020-12-03. NASA selected ispace (Japan) to collect a small amount of lunar regolith and transfer ownership in place to NASA for $5,000 (10% on… | Event |
| ESRIC implementation agreement signed with ESA2020-11-18. Luxembourg's Ministry of the Economy (supervising the LSA), LIST and ESA signed an implementation agreement on cooperation activities at… | Event |
| ESA contract 4000131940 to Metalysis for FFC oxygen production from regolith (ISRU)2020-11-06. Metalysis announced ESA funding under the General Support Technology Programme for 'The Metalysis FFC Process for Extra-Terrestrial… | Event |
| ispace Series B round (approx. USD 28 million)2020-08-20. ispace announced a Series B round of approximately USD 28 million led by Incubate Fund's IF SPV 1st Investment Partnership, bringing its… | Event |
| ESRIC established2020-08. The Luxembourg Space Agency and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology established the European Space Resources Innovation… | Event |
| NASA CLPS task order for Astrobotic to deliver VIPER ($199.5 million)2020-06-11. NASA awarded Astrobotic $199.5 million to deliver the VIPER water-ice prospecting rover to the lunar south pole on its Griffin lander… | Event |
| NASA CLPS task order to Masten Space Systems for south-pole delivery (USD 75.9 million)2020-04-08. NASA awarded Masten a USD 75.9 million CLPS task order to deliver eight payloads (nine instruments), several resource-related, to the… | Event |
| NASA SBIR Phase II award to Pioneer Astronautics for MMOST2020. SBIR.gov lists NASA SBIR Phase II contract 80NSSC20C0250 to Pioneer Astronautics for Moon to Mars Oxygen and Steel Technology, with a total… | Event |
| ESA-Luxembourg Memorandum of Cooperation on space resources2019-11. ESA and the Government of Luxembourg signed a Memorandum of Cooperation in the field of space resources, which preceded ESRIC's creation. | Event |
| NASA selects Honeybee's PlanetVac for a CLPS flight2019-07-01. NASA selected PlanetVac (principal investigator Kris Zacny, Honeybee Robotics), a technology to acquire and transfer lunar regolith… | Event |
| Metalysis Limited (04304849) enters administration2019-06-25. Companies House records the appointment of an administrator for Metalysis Limited on 25 June 2019, a move from administration to… | Event |
| NASA NIAC Phase III selection for TransAstra Mini Bee2019-06-11. NASA selected TransAstra's Mini Bee optical-mining flight-demonstration concept as one of two inaugural NIAC Phase III studies, each… | Event |
| Bradford Space acquires control of Deep Space Industries2019-01-02. Bradford Space announced it had acquired control of Deep Space Industries, taking over the Comet thruster line and the Xplorer spacecraft… | Event |
| Moon Express selected for NASA CLPS vendor pool2018-11-29. NASA named Moon Express one of nine companies eligible to bid on Commercial Lunar Payload Services task orders. | Event |
| ConsenSys acquires Planetary Resources2018-10-31. Planetary Resources announced that ConsenSys had acquired the company through an asset-purchase transaction. | Event |
| Deep Space Industries Series A first tranche2018-04-16. DSI announced closing the first tranche of a Series A of just over $3.5 million from private investors, to fund its Meteor engine and… | Event |
| Luxembourg Space Agency established2018. The Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy established the Luxembourg Space Agency in 2018. | Event |
| Planetary Resources and Government of Luxembourg EUR 25 million agreement2016-11-03. Planetary Resources announced a EUR 25 million agreement with the Government of Luxembourg and the state bank SNCI, comprising EUR 12… | Event |
| Planetary Resources $21.1 million Series A2016-05-26. Planetary Resources announced a $21.1 million Series A led by Bryan Johnson and the OS Fund, to be used to deploy an Earth-observation… | Event |
| Metalysis 2016 investment by Iluka Resources and Woodford Patient Capital Trust2016-02-18. Iluka Resources' Australian Securities Exchange notice of 18 February 2016 says it committed an additional £6 million to Metalysis… | Event |
| Luxembourg launches the SpaceResources.lu initiative2016-02. Luxembourg launched the SpaceResources.lu initiative in February 2016; it is led today by the Luxembourg Space Agency. | Event |
| Moon Express-Rocket Lab launch contract for three Electron launches2015-09-30. Moon Express announced it signed a contract with Rocket Lab on 30 Sept 2015 for three Electron launches of its MX-1 lander, with two… | Event |
| AustraliaSpace resources laws, authorizations and organizations in Australia. | Country |
| BelgiumSpace resources laws, authorizations and organizations in Belgium. | Country |
| CanadaSpace resources laws, authorizations and organizations in Canada. | Country |
| ChinaSpace resources laws, authorizations and organizations in China. | Country |
| FranceSpace resources laws, authorizations and organizations in France. | Country |
| GermanySpace resources laws, authorizations and organizations in Germany. | Country |
| HungarySpace resources laws, authorizations and organizations in Hungary. | Country |
| IndiaSpace resources laws, authorizations and organizations in India. | Country |
| IsraelSpace resources laws, authorizations and organizations in Israel. | Country |
| ItalySpace resources laws, authorizations and organizations in Italy. | Country |
| JapanSpace resources laws, authorizations and organizations in Japan. | Country |
| LuxembourgSpace resources laws, authorizations and organizations in Luxembourg. | Country |
| NorwaySpace resources laws, authorizations and organizations in Norway. | Country |
| United Arab EmiratesSpace resources laws, authorizations and organizations in United Arab Emirates. | Country |
| United KingdomSpace resources laws, authorizations and organizations in United Kingdom. | Country |
| United StatesSpace resources laws, authorizations and organizations in United States. | Country |
| Mare Frigoris2 mission records name Mare Frigoris, and none is still planned. Coordinates 60.5°N, 4.6°W, as printed in one record's target site. | Moon site |
| Atlas crater1 mission record names Atlas crater: HAKUTO-R Mission 1 (ispace M1 lander), launched 2022-12-11, failed. Coordinates 47.5°N, 44.4°E, as printed in… | Moon site |
| Mons Rümker1 mission record names Mons Rümker: Chang'e-5, launched 2020-11-24, succeeded. IAU-named mons at 40.76°N, 58.38°W, 73.25 km across. | Moon site |
| Sinus Viscositatis1 mission record names Sinus Viscositatis: Astrobotic Peregrine Mission One, launched 2024-01-08, failed. IAU-named sinus at 35.25°N, 40.99°W, 68 km… | Moon site |
| Mons Latreille1 mission record names Mons Latreille: Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1, launched 2025-01-15, succeeded. IAU-named mons at 18.47°N, 61.92°E, 6.4 km… | Moon site |
| Nassau crater1 mission record names Nassau crater: Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 2, launch no earlier than 2027. IAU-named crater at 24.91°S, 177.34°E, 75.8 km… | Moon site |
| Apollo basin1 mission record names Apollo basin: Chang'e-6, launched 2024-05-03, succeeded. IAU-named basin at 35.69°S, 151.48°W, 524.23 km across. | Moon site |
| Mons Mouton3 of 7 mission records naming Mons Mouton are not yet launched: Intuitive Machines IM-4, PROSPECT, VIPER. IAU-named mons at 84.60°S, 31.00°E, 130 km… | Moon site |
| Cabeus crater1 mission record names Cabeus crater: LCROSS, launched 2009-06-18, succeeded. IAU-named crater at 85.33°S, 42.13°W, 100.58 km across. | Moon site |
| Haworth craterBoth mission records naming Haworth crater are not yet launched: Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 4, MoonRanger micro-rover. | Moon site |
| Lunar waterUses, evidence and missions for water ice at the Moon. | Guide |
| Lunar water, step by stepFive steps from finding water to using it: what has been shown, what is proposed and what is missing. | Guide |
| Compare recordsChoose two or three missions or organizations and read them side by side. | Guide |
| PlanetVac, TRIDENT and TAGSAM: compare the mechanismsExplore gas-driven collection on the Moon and on asteroid Bennu, and drilling, in independent illustrative 3D views, with intended functions, results… | Guide |
| Oxygen from space resourcesProcessing demos versus ground tests, and what remains unproven. | Guide |
| Organizations by destinationMoon, asteroid and Mars organizations in this dataset. | Guide |
| Missions by resourceWater ice, helium-3, regolith and oxygen, and metals. | Guide |
| Space resources laws by countryNational statutes and related instruments, by jurisdiction. | Guide |
| Authorizations explainedWhat the authorization tracker documents, with citations to records. | Guide |
| Has there been a commercial delivery?The status answer, and the furthest steps any record has reached. | Guide |
| Moon mapLunar target sites named in mission records. | Guide |
| Lunar south pole missionsEvery mission record that names the lunar south polar region, placed at a named feature or not. | Guide |
| Asteroid targetsAsteroids named by mission records, with NASA/JPL size, spectral class and round-trip figures. | Guide |
| Everything in 3DEvery 3D view: the Moon in its current light, the asteroids missions name, three asteroid shapes, and how MOXIE made oxygen on Mars. | Guide |
| 3D MoonThe Sun computed for the time shown, NASA south pole terrain and permanent-shadow data, and sourced records at each site missions name. | Guide |
| 3D asteroidsThe asteroids mission records name, at estimated positions from NASA/JPL's orbital elements, with how far each record got on the evidence ladder. | Guide |
| Bennu in 3DThe shape NASA built from OSIRIS-REx laser measurements, reduced for phones, with its size and sample site. | Guide |
| Bennu's sample site in 3DNASA's model of the Nightingale sample site before OSIRIS-REx touched down, and the same ground with NASA's measured height change applied. | Guide |
| Ryugu in 3DThe shape JAXA's Hayabusa2 team built from the spacecraft's camera images, with its size, its limits and the samples Hayabusa2 brought back. | Guide |
| Apophis in 3DA preliminary shape built from ground-based radar images, with its size, its limits and the missions in this dataset that name it. | Guide |
| Schedule changesRecorded changes to planned mission dates, each milestone labelled. | Guide |
| Plans and outcomesEach resource mission's first recorded launch plan and what happened, and organizations recorded as dissolved, absorbed, dormant or concluded. | Guide |
| Coverage and gapsWhat this dataset covers, what is held back and what is still unknown. | Guide |
| How MOXIE made oxygen: a full-screen 3D storyHow NASA's MOXIE instrument turned Martian air into oxygen, stage by stage, with the quotes behind each step. The 3D layout is illustrative. | Guide |
| PlanetVac: How gas picks up lunar soilExplore a generic PlanetVac collection schematic: gas mobilizes soil, a hose transfers grains, and a collection system receives them. | Guide |
| TRIDENT: How TRIDENT was designed to drillExplore TRIDENT's designed rotation, hammering and extension, alongside NASA's report of what worked on the shortened PRIME-1 mission. | Guide |
| TAGSAM: How OSIRIS-REx sampled Bennu with gasExplore a generic TAGSAM schematic: an arm holds a round head to the surface, a burst of nitrogen lofts material into it, and the spacecraft backs… | Guide |
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