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Lunar Outpost

🇺🇸Golden, CO, United StatesLunar mobility (LTV prime)

Verified 2026-06-12· Lunar Outpost, Inc.

Founded

2017

Overview

Builds and operates lunar rovers under NASA's Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) Services contract — one of three primes selected April 2024. Also pursues commercial regolith-extraction contracts.

Moat: Lunar Dawn team includes Lockheed Martin, General Motors, Goodyear, and MDA Space — the most experienced industrial partnership of the three LTV primes. GM brings BEV powertrain heritage; Goodyear non-pneumatic tire IP.

Business

Primary customers

Government: NASA LTV Services
Commercial: Commercial lunar resource customers

Sectors

Lunar rovers · LTV Services · Surface infrastructure

Gallery

NASA astronaut Joe Acaba raises the solar array on Lunar Outpost's Eagle lunar terrain vehicle during testing at Johnson Space Center, October 2024. — Image: Crew evaluation of the Eagle LTV prototype at JSC — NASA / James Blair (JSC) · Public Domain

Astronauts Raja Chari and Randy Bresnik evaluate the seat configuration inside Lunar Outpost's Eagle lunar terrain vehicle, October 2024. — Image: Inside the Eagle LTV — seat-configuration testing — NASA / James Blair (JSC) · Public Domain

Production photography of a Lunar Terrain Vehicle ground test unit at NASA's Johnson Space Center, November 2024. — Image: An LTV ground test unit at JSC — NASA / JSC · Public Domain

Key Products

Lunar Dawn LTVdevelopment
Unpressurized crew + autonomous lunar terrain vehicle. NASA contracted up to $1.727B IDIQ ceiling across the LTV Services programme. First use target: Artemis V (NET 2030).
First flight: 2030 (NET)
MAPP rover (commercial)development
Small commercial lunar rover demonstrator targeting first surface operations.

Investor Resources

Primary-source documents — straight from Lunar Outpost's investor relations and SEC filings.

Investor Presentations

Near-term Catalysts

2026-2027
NASA LTV down-select to single prime
Down-select from 3 IDIQ primes to a single demonstration-mission winner — winner-take-most outcome.

Top Risks

LTV Services down-select could exclude Lunar Outpost in favor of Astrolab or Intuitive Machines.
Pre-revenue: contracts are milestone-based with substantial up-front R&D cost.
Surface operations depend on Artemis crew cadence which has slipped repeatedly.

Recent Milestones

2024-04-03
NASA selects Lunar Outpost as one of 3 LTV Services primes — IDIQ ceiling $1.727B
2026-05
NASA awards Lunar Outpost $220M Phase 1 task order — funding the first rover fleet for NASA's Moon base (Lunar Dawn LTV); one of the largest single task orders in the LTV Services programme

From Management

Recent interviews and talks from Lunar Outpost's leadership — hear the strategy in their own words.

Justin Cyrus · CEO & co-founderHow the Colorado company won NASA's Moon-rover competitionKOAA News5 · May 2026 AJ Gemer · CTO & co-founderAWS in Orbit: exploration on the Moon, Mars and moreT-Minus / N2K · Apr 9, 2025

What investors should know

Q1What's the LTV competitive structure?⌄

NASA selected three primes in April 2024: Lunar Outpost (Lunar Dawn, $1.727B ceiling), Venturi Astrolab (FLEX, $1.928B ceiling), and Intuitive Machines (Moon RACER, $1.692B ceiling). All three are funded for feasibility studies; NASA will down-select to a single demonstration-mission winner.

Q2Who are Lunar Outpost's team partners?⌄

Lockheed Martin (prime systems integration heritage), General Motors (BEV powertrain), Goodyear (non-pneumatic tires), and MDA Space (robotics + arm). The team is the deepest industrial partnership of the three LTV bids.

Q3Is Lunar Outpost publicly traded?⌄

No. Lunar Outpost is a privately held Colorado company. No public IPO timeline.

Q4What about commercial revenue outside LTV?⌄

Lunar Outpost's MAPP smaller rovers target commercial customers (resource prospecting, payload delivery). Revenue from these is modest pre-LTV.

Q5What happens if Lunar Outpost loses the LTV down-select?⌄

The IDIQ structure means task-order revenue stops; the feasibility-phase work would already be paid. Lunar Outpost would pivot to MAPP commercial rovers + potentially subcontractor roles on the winning bid.

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