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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Julian Cyrus, Lunar Outpost cofounder and chief operating officer, supports selling payloads in token form as a way to increase the number of payloads operating on the Moon and expand public participation in space missions.
Lunar Outpost is working with Copernic Space to sell an additional 3.48 kg of payload on its first Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP).
Northrop Grumman is working with Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, AVL, and Michelin as part of a five-company team to propose a lunar rover to NASA.
Lunar Outpost will apply experience developing its MAPP small robotic rover, which is scheduled to fly to the moon on a Nova-C lander in 2022, to the Northrop Grumman rover project.
Lunar Outpost of Golden, Colorado is preparing to send a 10-kilogram Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform robotic rover to the lunar south pole in 2022 on an Intuitive Machines lander.
NASA plans to pay Lunar Outpost $1 if the company collects a small amount of lunar regolith, verifies the collection, and transfers ownership to NASA.
The planned Lunar Outpost rover mission will use Nokia LTE 0.004 kg technologies to provide high-bandwidth communications between the rover, the lander, and Earth.
Lunar Outpost is developing a rover called MAPP that it plans to fly to the Moon on another company’s lander.
Lunar Outpost submitted a proposal offering to sell lunar material to NASA for $1.