Lunar Outpost is a private space company specializing in space robotics, lunar surface mobility, and space resource utilization. As a leading developer of advanced robotic systems for extreme environments, Lunar Outpost is known for its Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover, the first commercial rover to operate on the Moon. The company is also involved in NASA's Artemis Program, developing a Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) in collaboration with partners like General Motors and Goodyear, and has contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense, the Australian Government, and the Luxembourg Space Agency. Key partners and customers include NASA, Nokia, Intuitive Machines, and MIT.
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The executive order aims to establish the initial elements of a permanent lunar outpost by 2030 and to prepare for the journey to Mars without a specific target date.
NASA has selected Lunar Outpost to participate in its Artemis IV mission.
Lunar Outpost's MAPP (Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform) rover will support NASA's DUSTER investigation.
This will be Lunar Outpost's seventh contracted mission.
DUSTER, short for DUst and plaSma environmenT survEyoR, will fly as a suite of instruments on the Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform, or MAPP, a small rover provided by Lunar Outpost.
Lunar Outpost is based in Golden, Colorado and develops and operates robotic systems for space missions.
Lunar Outpost designed its MAPP rover using AWS, leading to significant time and cost savings.
The mission by Lunar Outpost will demonstrate the ability to command robotic workforces to establish infrastructure in space.
Lunar Outpost is planning a mission to conduct decentralized, cross-domain swarm operations in low Earth orbit.
NASA selected three companies, Venturi Astrolab, Lunar Outpost, and Intuitive Machines, for LTV development in April 2024.
NASA awarded contracts to Venturi Astrolab, Lunar Outpost, and Intuitive Machines in April 2024 to work on feasibility studies for the next-gen Moon vehicles.
Intuitive Machines' second Moon mission will deploy Lunar Outpost’s MAPP rover to collect lunar soil.
Non-NASA payloads on Athena, including a multi-million-dollar rover from Lunar Outpost and Dymon’s tiny rover, incurred their own development losses when Athena failed.
Athena’s payloads include a NASA-funded drill and spectrometer, a rover from Lunar Outpost, a rover from Japan-based Dymon, a NASA-funded hopper from Intuitive Machines, and a retroreflector.
Lunar Outpost Oceania and the ELO2 Consortium developed and tested four rover prototypes in under 15 months.
Lunar Outpost Oceania won Startup of the Year at the Australian Space Awards 2024.
Lunar Outpost Oceania was established in 2023.
Lunar Outpost signed an agreement on 2024-11-21 for SpaceX to use Starship to transport the company’s Lunar Outpost Eagle rover to the moon.
Lunar Outpost selected SpaceX’s Starship to deliver its Lunar Outpost Eagle Artemis lunar rover to the moon.
Lunar Outpost raised a Series A funding round on 2024-11-13 and did not disclose the size of the round.