Top 18 Moon Mission startups

Updated: Oct 11, 2026
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These startups are developing spacecrafts, rovers, stations and other technologies for lunar missions.
1
MDA
Country: Canada | Funding: $1.4B
MDA is an international space mission partner and robotics, satellite systems, and geointelligence pioneer. MDA is developing the Canadarm3, an iconic, next-generation AI-enabled robotic system. Also MDA supports humanity’s long-term return to the lunar surface,
2
Redwire
Country: USA | Funding: $1.3B
Redwire is a key mission enabler with products relevant to almost every space mission, including: power generation, antennas, deployable solutions, star trackers, and camera systems. It is building next generation spacecraft with key capabilities such as maneuverability, AI, and resiliency. Redwire’s advanced optical imaging and sun sensor technology launched onboard the Orion spacecraft as part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission for the Artemis program. Redwire is also a global leader in microgravity research and development with decades of flight heritage and hundreds of experiments flown focused on transformational improvements to drug development and human health issues.
3
Intuitive Machines
Country: USA | Funding: $620.5M
Intuitive Machines offers engineering solutions at the unimagined intersections between energy, medicine, and aerospace. In particular it's build Earth-Moon communications infrastructure for NASA.
4
ispace
Country: Japan | Funding: $194.2M
iSpace is a lunar mission and exploration company. Its goal is to expand human presence in space. According to the company, the moon's water resources represent untapped potential for developing a space economy: water can be broken down into hydrogen and oxygen to produce fuel, accelerating the pace of space exploration. Therefore, the company is mapping lunar water resources. The company's management predicts that by 2040, 1,000 people will live on the moon and iSpace will provide the infrastructure for lunar missions (lander, rovers, etc). iSpace's first lunar mission was launched in 2022 to demonstrate a soft landing on the moon. The second, in 2024, was intended to deliver a small rover. Both missions crashed on the moon but provided the company with valuable data and experience.
5
Interlune
Country: USA | Funding: $30.1M
Interlune is a lunar resource startup that provides resources for a clean and sustainable economy on Earth and in space.
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Argo Space
Country: USA | Funding: $10M
Argo Space develops small reusable spacecraft transfer vehicles and the technology for harvesting water from lunar regolith to create an abundant source of in-space propellant
7
Firefly Aerospace
Country: USA | Funding: $1.4B
Firefly Aerospace provides launch vehicles, spacecraft, and in-space services for small payloads. Firefly’s on-orbit services include deorbiting services to help minimize space debris. Firefly’s lunar lander is flying annual missions to the Moon with payload services customized to the technology and exploration goals of each customer.
8
Astrobotic
Country: USA | Funding: $249.6M
Astrobotic is building robotics technologies for lunar mission - from surface and subsurface robotics platforms, to precision landing and hazard detection systems. Its main products inlude lunar landers that can carry around 625 kg of payload to the lunar surface, moon rovers designed to provide affordable mobility for scientific instruments and other payloads to operate on the surface of the Moon, small cube-rovers, designed to accommodate diverse lunar payloads with distinct mission profiles, like lunar regolith digging or water ice harvesting. The company also plans commercial power service for the lunar surface. It will enable space agencies, companies, and nonprofit systems to survive the lunar night and operate indefinitely on the Moon.
9
Qosmosys
Country: Singapore | Funding: $100M
Qosmosys is committed to developing lunar lander tech. The company aims to send its ZeusX spacecraft to the moon
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Moon Express
Country: USA | Funding: $65.5M
Moon Express develops a robotic spacecraft for low cost missions beyond the Earth, including the Moon, asteroids, and Mars.
Boris Maslennikov
Editor: Boris Maslennikov
Boris Maslennikov is a senior editor for Space-Startups. He has spent more than a decade covering the global space industry as a business journalist. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science from the California Institute of Technology. In his free time, Boris enjoys studying history and mathematics, with a particular interest in the history of mathematics. You can contact Boris at borismaslenikov(at)space-startups(dot)com