Research Fellowship

Get Notified About Fellowship Opening

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.

WHAT WE DO

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.

PROJECT PIPELINE

Current projects

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Initiative

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.

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Initiative

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.

Project
Concept

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.

Project
Hunch

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.

Project
Hunch

Cooperative Landing Pads

Developing a business model for cooperative and sustainable lunar landing pad infrastructure.

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Hunch

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.

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Hunch

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?

Project
Hunch

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.

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Innovation Methodology

We develop public goods for the lunar future through a community driven innovation process.

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OUR NETWORK

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.

THE LATEST

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.

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