Donors and Partners

THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS

Open Lunar exists because people chose to believe in a different kind of return to the Moon — one that is peaceful, cooperative, and worthy of the moment. Long before lunar landings filled the news, our donors saw what was coming and asked a harder question: not just can we go back, but how? Their generosity is the reason we can do patient, independent work — building public goods, open infrastructure, and shared norms that no single mission, company, or nation would build alone.

How we return matters — and it is these people who make a successful return possible. With deep gratitude, we thank:

  • Jessy Kate & Robbie Schingler

  • Will Marshall

  • Steve Jurvetson

  • Anonymous Donor

  • The Institute

  • Many individual donors — thank you!

THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS

No one stewards the Moon alone. Our partners — space agencies' scientific counterparts, commercial operators, research institutions, and civil society organisations — bring their missions, data, expertise, and communities to shared work. Together we are building the cooperative infrastructure that a peaceful lunar future requires.

Institutional Partners

  • Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)

    Under a Memorandum of Understanding signed in March 2026 in Leiden, Open Lunar and COSPAR collaborate to promote scientific priorities in lunar exploration, strengthen responsible information sharing, and integrate scientific perspectives into voluntary lunar information infrastructure, including the Lunar Ledger: cosparhq.cnes.fr

  • European Space Policy Institute (ESPI)

    Under a Memorandum of Understanding, ESPI and Open Lunar work to strengthen international dialogue on the future of lunar activities, including co-designed tabletop exercises for member-state delegates on the sidelines of UN COPUOS, joint workshops, and contributions to each other's publications and outreach: espi.or.at

  • Secure World Foundation

    Under a Partnership Framework Agreement, Secure World Foundation and Open Lunar collaborate to promote dialogue and good governance in lunar and cislunar activities, including through policy tabletop exercises on lunar security and governance, joint research and publications on the application of existing treaties to emerging lunar activities, and shared work on safety and coordination of lunar activities. https://www.swfound.org/ 

Lunar Ledger Commercial Partners

  • Firefly Aerospace

    Founding Lunar Ledger partner and the first commercial company to achieve a successful Moon landing, committed to sharing mission data through the Ledger: fireflyspace.com

  • ispace

    Founding Lunar Ledger partner, a global lunar exploration company with entities in Japan, the United States, and Luxembourg, committed to sharing mission data through the Ledger": ispace-inc.com

  • Astrolab

    Founding Lunar Ledger partner developing lunar mobility systems, committed to sharing mission data through the Ledger: astrolab.space

  • JAOPS and Dymon

    Early Lunar Ledger signatories whose YAOKI mission provided the first commercial lunar dataset released on the Lunar Ledger platform in July 2026.

These are the founding commercial partners of the Lunar Ledger, the world's first open-access database of lunar missions and surface activities, introduced at the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney in 2025.