Every year, we work to collate our recent insights and share it publicly through our fellowship research showcase events. This event celebrates the launch of the Cooperative Landing Pads research by Ashley Kosak, and Payload X research by Daniel Tompkins.

Building on Part-I of the blog, we delve deeper into landing pad infrastructure, drawing inspiration from Earth's airports and seaports and outlining key design principles, emphasizing safety, efficiency, and standardization.

Thesis: A cooperative lunar landing pad is possible through collaboration and leveraging of historical design factors

Open Lunar Foundation has decided to build on its past work on the Lunar Registry of Objects and Activities to investigate the creation of a community-led Lunar Accidents, Incidents, and Issues Reporting System.

Introducing Prototype and Proposal of a Lunar Registry of Objects and Activities! The Lunar Registry aims to create a comprehensive database of Lunar objects and activities.

Norms, particularly transparency, are needed to stabilise competition and promote cooperation on the Moon.

A voluntary Lunar Registry would not replace or render governmental or intergovernmental registries obsolete.

Normative behaviours are integral to fostering a coherent community of actors and promoting peace and stability for existing treaties and aspirational goals.

The blog explores the incentive structures that would enable commercial participation in a Lunar Registry through a series of related posts.

There is an opportunity for actors interested in entering the lunar communications space to learn from the best practices of network infrastructure providers (ISPs/IXPs), as well as the open source community.

The outline of a plan to put an orbiter around the Moon within approximately 2 years.