Has there been a commercial delivery of a resource from the Moon, an asteroid, or Mars?
No commercial delivery in this dataset.
Scientific sampling, a processing demonstration and commercial delivery are separate steps. None of the 75 organizations or 48 resource mission records (spacecraft, payloads and instruments) in this dataset documents a commercial delivery of a resource taken from the Moon, an asteroid or Mars. The records were checked between 2026-09-25 and 2026-11-10. This describes these records, and is not proof that nothing exists outside them.
Any claim of commercial extraction is held for a separate evidence review before it can enter this dataset. That review has not accepted such a claim, which is not the same as showing every such claim is false.
Words matter here. Collecting samples for science, testing a processing method and selling a resource are separate steps. The evidence ladder explains each one.
Related question — has oxygen been produced from space resources? In this dataset, MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) demonstrated oxygen production from the Martian atmosphere (a processing demo, not commercial delivery). No published record here documents oxygen extracted from lunar or asteroid material on those bodies. Earth-simulant results stay at Claimed, including the 48 gram oxygen test stated by Starpath Robotics. See the oxygen guide.
Reported result: NASA reports that Lunar PlanetVac collected, transferred and sorted lunar soil on Blue Ghost Mission 1. This was sample collection, not demonstrated water or oxygen extraction or commercial resource production.
Purpose: Investigate below the lunar surface with a drill.
Reported result: NASA reports auger rotation, full-range extension, percussion, heater operation and temperature sensing during the shortened mission after Athena rested on its side. The PRIME-1 overview says the instruments did not accomplish their science, exploration and technology goals. Individual movements do not establish successful drilled-sample acquisition.
Limits: MSOLO scanned gases; NASA's initial interpretation attributed them to human sources. These reports do not establish indigenous lunar water detection. Heater and sensor locations are shown only as a callout, and no bore depth is claimed.
Purpose: Collect asteroid material with gas for return to Earth.
Reported result: On 20 October 2020 the head touched Bennu at about 10 cm per second; the gas fired after about 1 second of contact, and the spacecraft began backing away after about 6 seconds. Images indicated that rocks held the head's Mylar flap open and material was escaping, so NASA sped up stowage; the arm placed the head in the return capsule by the evening of 27 October. NASA reports 121.6 grams of Bennu material delivered to Earth on 24 September 2023. This was sample collection for science, not resource extraction.
Limits: The ground gave way more than the design expected: the head had sunk about 6 to 7 cm before the gas fired, and NASA says the spacecraft would have sunk into Bennu had it not fired its thrusters to back away. The schematic shows the designed sequence, not that response.
Records whose highest supported evidence is at each of the upper steps.
Processing demo: extraction demo
OxEon EnergyU.S. developer and manufacturer of solid-oxide systems, included for its contribution to NASA's MOXIE Mars oxygen experiment. NASA names OxEon among MOXIE's developers; OxEon says it…
MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment)NASA instrument on the Perseverance rover that produced oxygen from Martian atmospheric carbon dioxide by solid oxide electrolysis. First production was on 20 April 2021 (about 5 grams); by…
Sampled: material collected
Honeybee RoboticsSpace robotics and mechanisms company (Altadena, California and Longmont, Colorado) that builds sampling and drilling hardware, including NASA's TRIDENT drill (flown in PRIME-1 on IM-2 and…
Chang'e-5Chinese lunar sample-return mission launched on 24 November 2020 (Beijing time) that landed near Mons Ruemker in Oceanus Procellarum on 1 December 2020 and returned about 1,731 grams of…
Chang'e-6Chinese lunar far-side sample-return mission launched on 3 May 2024 that landed in the South Pole-Aitken basin on 2 June 2024 and returned 1,935.3 grams on 25 June 2024. A 2025…
Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 (Ghost Riders in the Sky)Firefly's Blue Ghost lander launched 2025-01-15, landed in Mare Crisium on 2025-03-02 and operated for more than 14 days; among its NASA payloads, Honeybee Robotics' Lunar PlanetVac…
Hayabusa2 (Ryugu sample return)JAXA asteroid sample-return spacecraft launched on 3 December 2014 on H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 26. It arrived at near-Earth asteroid Ryugu in June 2018, touched down on 22 February 2019 to…
Chandrayaan-1India's first lunar orbiter, launched on 22 October 2008 on PSLV-C11 and operated until contact was lost on 29 August 2009. It carried NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), whose spectra…
LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite)NASA spacecraft launched with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter on 18 June 2009. On 9 October 2009 its spent Centaur upper stage struck the permanently shadowed floor of Cabeus crater near…
Resource-specific authorizations
3 government acts issued under laws written for space resource activities, and what happened to the missions they cover. The home page counts all 4 authorizations in the dataset; the other 1 were not issued under a space resources law.