THE WORK OF OUR TIMES IS STEWARDSHIP. THE MOON IS OUR OPPORTUNITY.
Fellowship Applications for 2025 cohort are now open!
Applications for our 2025 fellowship cohort are now open! We're looking for passionate people from around the world to dedicate one day a week for six to eight months. As a fellow, you'll develop innovative ideas that can drive future investments and community initiatives.
We build toward a peaceful, cooperative lunar future.
Open Lunar is an independent nonprofit organisation operating globally to create a peaceful, self-sustaining presence on the Moon.
We focus on contributing to progress and innovation in technical standards, policy and regulation, and shared infrastructure and hardware.
Our projects are sourced in partnership with a global inter-disciplinary professional network and developed through projects that benefit from independent evaluation, coaching and financial support.
Current projects
Lunar Policy Platform (LPP)
LPP is aims to advance international Lunar policy discussions between government actors. It does this through a combination of qualitative research and advocacy with key stakeholders. This work is then synthesised to identify potential areas for progress.
Breaking Ground Trust (BGT)
BGT was created to demonstrate sustainable approaches to the institutional management of Lunar resources between different stakeholders. In doing so, BGT highlights gaps and encourages best practice thought leadership for sustainable Lunar resource management.
A Global Registry of Lunar Objects and Activities
The Lunar registry project aims to establish a neutral, independent source of truth where anyone can find information on past, current and future Lunar activities and objects.
Community Payload Review
Establishing a transparent community-driven payload review mechanism for Lunar missions, inspired by governance systems like those used by ICANN and the FAA.
Cooperative Landing Pads
Developing a business model for cooperative and sustainable lunar landing pad infrastructure.
Lunar Power Standards
Investigating the potential for the standardization of power provision for Lunar missions, focusing on both public and private sector best practices on Earth and in Space.
Payload X
Revisiting lunar settlement challenges with updated technology and proposing key payloads. What near-term payloads are most important for unlocking a sustainable Lunar presence?
Lunar Accidents, Incidents, and Issues Reporting System
Investigating the design of a registry for logging accidents and issues across Lunar missions, inspired by FAA's Accident and Incident Data.
Innovation Methodology
We develop public goods for the lunar future through a community driven innovation process.
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Get involved in turning ideas to action
We recruit talented experts to work together on lunar issues. Every August we open opportunities to work with our team on challenging problems the space community agrees need solutions.
Discover what's new at Open Lunar
Our work is organized into projects, research and posts. The boxes below link to our most recent published updates from across all of our work areas and communications streams. See all our updates.
Payload(Bay) X: A Modular Approach to Sustainable Lunar Operations
Daniel Tompkins, Monty Karmakharm
2025 Fellowship Program- Applications Open
Open Lunar Foundation's Statement on Transparency in Cislunar and Interplanetary Spaceflight Activities
Rachel Williams
A Community Certification for Lunar Exploration
Abbhinav Muralidharan
Hiring: Director of Operations - Open Lunar Foundation
Fellowship Research Showcase: Cooperative Landing Pads & Payload X
Ashley Kosak, Daniel Tompkins, Harshita Khera
Fellowship Research Showcase- Lunar Power Standards & Community Payload Review
Abbhinav Muralidharan, Paolo Pino, Rachel Williams, Monty Karmakharm
Cooperative Landing Pads- Enabling the highway to space exploration
Ashley Kosak
An Open Dashboard for Lunar Power Candidate Standards
Paolo Pino
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