GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR THE MOON
RESOURCE IDENTIFICATION & MISSION PLANNING
The New Frontier Needs New Tools
Lunar Exploration provides the core geospatial intelligence layer for the emerging lunar economy, enabling resource identification and mission planning for agencies, landers, rovers, mining operations, and ISRU operators. Our mission is to build the world’s most advanced planetary geospatial intelligence platform.
We aim to identify natural resources such as water, the key energy source on the Moon. In this way, Lunar Exploration can provide an instrumental tool for space development.
Lunar Exploration’s platform combines a wide range of mission datasets, including imagery, altimetry, spectroscopy, radar, neutron and gamma signatures, thermal models, and topographical data—into a harmonised 3D lunar environment.
LUNEXP'S
Geospatial intelligence
“We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.”
- William Anders, NASA Astronaut
The Earthrise image is the first color image of Earth from the Moon by a person (William Anders)
FOOTSTEP
A Historical Moment
There were six crewed U.S. landings between 1969 and 1972, and numerous uncrewed landings, with no soft landings happening between 22 August 1976 and 14 December 2013.
The United States is the only country to have successfully conducted crewed missions to the Moon, with the last departing the lunar surface in December 1972.
All soft landings took place on the near side of the Moon until 3 January 2019, when the Chinese Chang’e 4 spacecraft made the first landing on the far side of the Moon.
Also, in 2017, a Moon exploration program, called Artemis was announced by NASA.
The goal of NASA’s Artemis campaign to explore the Moon for scientific discovery, technology advancement, and to learn how to live and work on another world as we prepare for human missions to Mars.
NASA will collaborate with commercial and international partners and establish the first long-term presence on the Moon.
LUNEXP'S
Collecting Lunar Data
Between July 1969 and December 1972 a total of 12 astronauts landed on the surface of the Moon for six of the Apollo missions. Apollo missions 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 each landed in different locations on the lunar surface.
These locations, each fascinating for their own particular reasons, sampled a wide range of lunar geology and terrain, from smooth mare plains to rugged ancient highlands.
All six landing sites are visible tonight.
The Problem:
Today’s lunar data is fragmented, outdated, and built for science, not for commercial missions.
Collecting lunar data through Moon rovers in order to refine our map is the most ambitious and key objective for Lunar Exploration. Acquiring images of the lunar surface for both scientific and educational reasons can provide an instrumental tool for space development.
Robotic construction can advance unmanned lunar exploration, providing high-resolution surface images, environmental data, telemetry and information on available natural resources that are invaluable assets for lunar market entry, future manned missions and the development of a lunar base.
The Solution:
Lunar Exploration provides the commercial-grade digital twin of the Moon with unified geospatial layers, resource probability models, and mission-planning analytics.
What We Deliver:
