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

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

  • Dymon

    Early Lunar Ledger signatory 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.

Mission and Technology Partners

  • Honeybee Robotics

    Partnering with Open Lunar to develop an open dust monitoring system for the lunar surface, flying on Honeybee's rover as part of the CP-21 Mission — with the payload design and resulting dataset made openly available as the foundation for the first open standard for dust detection on the Moon. honeybeerobotics.com/

Moon Dialogs Conveners

Long-standing collaborators who convened the Moon Dialogs alongside Open Lunar, producing the Lunar Policy Handbook and years of research salons on lunar governance.

Research Collaborations

  • Dark Matter Labs

    Open Lunar contributors developed Between the Craters for Dark Matter Labs as part of the Planetary Compendium, a global research initiative exploring governance challenges beyond Earth.

  • Foresight Institute

    The Foresight Institute helped to fund Open Lunar’s development of the Between the Craters lunar governance simulation held at the IAC 2025 in Sydney with over 40 government, industry, science, academic and civil society participants. foresight.org

  • Berggruen Institute

    The Berggruen Institute supported Open Lunar’s development of the Between the Craters lunar governance simulation, held at the IAC 2025 in Sydney, with over 40 government, industry, science, academic, and civil society participants. berggruen.org/eu

  • Secure World Foundation

    Secure World Foundation collaborated with Open Lunar on the development of the Between the Craters lunar governance simulation, held at the IAC 2025 in Sydney, with over 40 government, industry, science, academic, and civil society participants. swfound.org

  • Climate Cartographics

    Climate Cartographics developed the lunar simulation maps and tabletop models for the Between the Craters lunar governance simulation, held at the IAC 2025 in Sydney, with over 40 government, industry, science, academic, and civil society participants. climatecartographics.com

  • Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)

    Open Lunar partnered with the Geneva Centre for Security Policy to host an Open Lunar tabletop on lunar security for the ambassadors and Geneva delegations of Artemis Accord and International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) states, alongside industry CEOs and space security experts. Open Lunar also collaborated with GCSP to run a Geneva Security Debate on Lunar Security and Strategic Competition, in partnership with the Global University Alliance for Outer Space Policy and Law Education (GUAOSPLE), platforming experts from the US, China, and Europe. gcsp.ch

  • Global University Alliance for Outer Space Policy and Law Education (GUAOSPLE)

    Open Lunar is a partner of GUAOSPLE, an initiative from Beijing Institute of Technology, co-founded with Durham University (UK), the African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in English, and the Catholic University of Santons (Brazil) and overseen by its Advisory Council members, the United Nations for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), the United Nations Institute for Disarmamemnt Research (UNIDIR), and the International Institute of Space Law (IISL). GUAOSPLE aims to facilitate transnational research and engagement and aims to share high-quality educational resources in the field of outer space policy and law globally. english.bit.edu.cn/2024-12/27/c_1059966.htm

  • Sustainable Markets Initiative

    Open Lunar partnered with the Sustainable Markets Initiative and the Karman Project to convene over 30 government, industry, and scientific stakeholders for a workshop on the approaches, challenges, and ways forward for lunar information sharing and coordination, with the feedback directly feeding into the Lunar Ledger project. sustainable-markets.org

  • The Karman Project

    Open Lunar partnered with the Karman Project and the Sustainable Markets Initiative to convene over 30 government, industry, and scientific stakeholders for a workshop on the approaches, challenges, and ways forward for lunar information sharing and coordination, with the feedback directly feeding into the Lunar Ledger project. karmanproject.org