Lunar Resources, Inc. is an American industrial technology company focused on developing new industrial processes, particularly using pulsed power technologies, to advance the industrial, aerospace, and energy sectors both on Earth and in space. The company specializes in off-Earth resource extraction and space manufacturing, aiming to facilitate the industrialization of space and support a lunar economy. Lunar Resources partners with organizations like NASA and the Department of Defense, providing research, development, and prototype services related to lunar in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) and additive manufacturing using lunar materials. Key activities include molten regolith electrolysis for oxygen extraction, in-space welding, and developing high-temperature alloys, with keywords including space manufacturing, lunar resources, and ISRU.
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Luxembourg adopted a Space Resources policy in 2016 and became the first European country to implement regulations giving private enterprises rights to asteroid and lunar resources.
NASA’s lunar base effort will involve dozens of lander missions and a phased approach to building rover capabilities for scouting lunar resources and building infrastructure.
Interlune is a Seattle-based lunar resources company.
Long-term plans include potential lunar manufacturing facilities that could produce satellites using lunar resources and deploy them into deeper space using electromagnetic launch systems.
The absence of a shared legal framework for structured economic use of lunar resources raises questions about property, access, and liability that increase long-term investment uncertainty.
The letter attributed to Elon Musk outlines the possibility of factories on the Moon that use local lunar resources to manufacture satellites.
The strategic focus will shift to establishing a sustainable presence on the Moon and exploiting lunar resources like water ice for fuel.
Blue Origin and Luxembourg announced a multi-phase initiative to identify key lunar resources from orbit.
The initiative will assess lunar resources on the ground and harness them in situ.
On September 30, 2025, Blue Origin announced Project Oasis, aimed at identifying and utilizing lunar resources from orbit.
Oasis-1 is part of Blue Origin's multi-phase initiative to locate, map, characterize, and utilize lunar resources.
Control over lunar resources such as rare earth elements and helium-3 has become a part of the strategic rivalry between the two nations.
China plans to launch Chang’e-7 around 2026 and Chang’e-8 around 2028 to explore lunar resources at the lunar south pole and verify in-situ utilization of those resources.
CisLunar Industries will work on the Material Extraction, Treatment, Assembly and Logistics (METAL) framework for lunar resources as part of LunA-10.
Peter Curreri of Lunar Resources, Inc. in Houston received a 2023 NIAC Phase I grant for 'Lunar South Pole Oxygen Pipeline'.
ispace, inc. is a Japanese lunar exploration company with a stated vision to utilize lunar resources such as water to expand human presence into outer space and create a sustainable future for humankind.
The 2020-10-01 budget request included $430,000,000 for a new Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative to fund technology demonstrations such as power generation and utilization of lunar resources.
The RSA–Lunar Resources team estimated that building the two spacecraft and demonstrating the mirror-manufacturing concept in space could cost upwards of $20,000,000.
Lunar Resources is an in-space manufacturing company that helped RSA develop the concept to construct a very large EO/IR mirror in space.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Lunar Resources a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 2 contract with RSA as a subcontractor.