The Lunar Resources Registry is an up-to-date registry and map for Space agencies, Science Missions, policymakers, Non-Government Organisations and Commercial entities.
Our Primary Services are Lunar Registrations as a Service. This includes:
- Provider of an online Lunar Map of activity; past, present, and future.
- Public Registrations; Free for Space Agencies, Scientists, Start-ups, and Planned Missions.
- Commercial Resources Registrations; Operations for exploration and extraction (e.g. Moon Mining), ISRU, Energy (Solar and Nuclear), CisLunar Infrastructure operations.
As part of our service, we provide a Space Resources Legal Framework to lay the groundwork for space mining operations.
Secondary Services, still in Development, include:
- Commercial Lunar Map BETA: An extensive Lunar Resources Map refined for clients.
- Missions to Lunar Locations: Complimenting a Registration is an actual Mission to a Lunar Location, in 5-10 years.
Concepts for Lunar Operations, Start-ups and Scientists: Register with Us!
Are you a CisLunar focussed start-up or scientist developing an ISRU experiment or operation on the surface of the Moon? If you know where it could be located, Register with the Lunar Resources Registry. We are looking to build a Map of potential experimental missions. Find out more.
Explore Activity on the Moon via our Lunar Maps:
Why a Registry for the Moon?
As the Space Race evolves into Space Industrialisation, the search for off-world resources goes straight to the Moon. But how will Lunar Zoning function, when multiple nations, and soon companies, are conducting expensive and revolutionary missions? The Lunar Resources Registry is the answer.
Why Resources on the Moon?
There’s two simple reasons to explore the Lunar surface for resources:
1. Water trapped in regolith can be used to produce propulsion, and support life.
2. For millennia, we have mined the Earth, now we are developing the technology to mine the Moon: It can provide us with rare elements, like platinum group metals, without environmental consequences
Our Mission: Order from Chaos, with Collaboration!
- Space Agencies: Going to the Moon? Let us know!
- Lunar NGO / policymakers: Get in contact and we can co-ordinate our activities.
- Space Resources Prospectors: We can Register as a Service high-value locations.
- Space Resources Exploration and Extraction: We can Register as a Service and help build Mission profiles and payloads to specific locations.
- Legal Questions: We have developed a Space Resources Legal Framework. We know what is permissible, possible, and the direction of policy and legal issues.
Explore High Profile Registrations:
We have Created Simple Registrations Categories:
Read our Registry Guide.
Start Exploring Our Registrations
The following Registration can be viewed without a login:
Actual Landers and Impact sites, Including:
Surveyor 1 Lander 1966, Apollo 11 Landing Module 1969, Luna 20 Lander and Sample Return 1972, Luna 21 Lunokhod 2 Rover, Apollo 17 Landing Module, ESA Smart-1 Impact Site, Chang’e 4 Lander, Chang’e 5 Sample Return, Chandrayaan-2 Lander Impact Site 2019, and the Beresheet Impact site.
Planned Missions
ESA Lunar Resources Lander, NASA CLPS PRISM-1A (2023) to Reiner Gamma, NASA CLPS PRISM-1B (2024) to Schroedinger Basin
Registrations for Conceptual Science Missions and Operations (2):
Science: The Ear – Far-Side Asteroid Observatory – Ideal also for a radio telescope.
Science: Bullseye – Near-Side Earth Observatory – Ideal for direct line of sight with Earth.
Registrations for Resources:
New Pilbara North – A Partnership Registration highlighting the detection of iron in ejecta. Including potential Registrations for Iron Resources, a refuse pit, and a port.
Our Registrations by Numbers:
- Actual Landers and Impact Sites: 72.
- Heritage Zones: 6. Currently, all Apollo crewed landing sites.
- Planned Landers: 24.
- Science Registrations: 2
- Development Zones (future commercial activity)
Partnerships
We work closely with specific partners to determine the authenticity of our Registrations.
LRR and selected Partners work together to create
- Partnership Registrations: A LRR Registration, including Lunar analytical information specific to the Registration, including but not limited to terrain, resources in comparison to other data sets, and options for future enhanced information, such as higher resolution imagery when available.
- Missions to Lunar Locations: We estimate that in 5-10 years Missions can be undertaken to targetted Lunar Locations.
Data Sources
The LRR has multiple data sources, and the below list is only partially complete.
