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 Australian Space Agency plans to select one of two national industry consortiums competing to build the Roo-ver lunar rover—AROSE and EPE & Lunar Outpost Oceania—later this year and plans for the rover to launch later this decade.
Lunar Outpost's Lunar Dawn rover had a higher mission suitability score of 863 but a higher price at nearly $1.73 billion.
Lunar Outpost submitted a proposal with a price of $1,727,000,000 and a mission suitability score of 863.
NASA selected proposals led by Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab for its Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services program on 2024-04-03.
Lunar Outpost's Lunar Dawn rover integrates General Motors' electric-vehicle battery technology.
NASA selected teams led by Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab for the LTV program.
Lunar Outpost’s commercial lunar rover missions scheduled to reach the Moon 2024 will serve as LTVS pathfinder missions to test technologies and gather data for LTV development.
Lunar Outpost is presently contracted to design four lunar rovers and has two lunar rovers already built and qualified.
NASA awarded the Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services (LTVS) contract to the Lunar Dawn team led by Lunar Outpost with principal partner Lockheed Martin and teammates General Motors, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, and MDA Space.
Lunar Outpost’s commercial lunar rover missions reaching the Moon 2024 will serve as LTVS pathfinder missions to test technologies and gather data for LTV development.
Lunar Outpost is currently contracted to design four lunar rovers and has already built and qualified two rovers.
NASA selected Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab on 2024-04-03 for the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) Services contract.
Lunar Outpost offered $1 for its samples under its NASA award and received a 10-cent milestone payment in August, handed to CEO Justin Cyrus by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.
Lunar Outpost raised a $12,000,000 seed round on 2022-05-24.
Lunar Outpost will use the $12,000,000 in funding to further development of a line of robotic lunar rovers.
Lunar Outpost won a NASA award in 2020 to collect samples and transfer them to NASA.
Explorer 1 Fund led Lunar Outpost’s $12,000,000 seed round with participation from Promus Ventures, Space Capital, Type 1 Ventures, and Cathexis Ventures.
Lunar Outpost is developing the Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover that will fly on Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lunar lander launching in 2023.
A second Lunar Outpost MAPP rover will launch on another Intuitive Machines lander in 2024 as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Lunar Outpost plans to announce a third rover mission to the moon sometime in the summer following 2022-05-24.