{"city":"Hawthorne","name":"Astrolab","slug":"astrolab","facts":[{"date":"2028-01-01","type":"deployment","value":"Rovers will be delivered via Blue Moon Mark 1 landers for lunar surface operations","source":"SpaceNews"},{"date":"2026-09-17","type":"product_launch","value":"Astrolab announced NASA payloads for an upcoming lunar mission","source":"Astrolab"},{"date":"2026-08-06","type":"deployment","value":"FLEX Rover will install a greenhouse pod on the lunar surface for Artemis 4","source":"SpaceNews"},{"date":"2026-08-05","type":"deployment","value":"Interlune multispectral camera will fly on Astrolab FLIP Rover to measure helium-3","source":"Astrolab"},{"date":"2026-07-13","type":"deployment","value":"Griffin-1 shipment enables delivery of FLIP rover to the Moon","source":"SpaceNews"},{"date":"2026-07-06","type":"product_launch","value":"Mark 1 landers will carry Lunar Terrain Vehicle rovers","source":"SpaceNews"}],"peers":[{"name":"Firefly Aerospace","rank":13,"slug":"firefly-aerospace","score":"82.5"},{"name":"Intuitive Machines","rank":15,"slug":"intuitive-machines","score":"82"},{"name":"Lunar Outpost","rank":53,"slug":"lunar-outpost","score":"72.5"},{"name":"Astrobotic","rank":73,"slug":"astrobotic","score":"67.5"}],"stage":null,"state":"California","aliases":[],"country":"United States","domains":[{"why":"Astrolab develops lunar rovers, including FLEX and FLIP, for cargo, payload delivery and crew support on the Moon, including for NASA's Lunar Terrain Vehicle missions.","list":"Space 100","rank":71,"tier":"member","layer":"Planetary economy","total":68,"domain":"Space","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":10,"firepower":8,"commercial":6,"deployment":8,"production":4,"technology":6},"edition":"November 2026","segment":"Landers, rovers & surface transport"},{"why":"Astrolab builds autonomous mobile field robots designed to navigate, transport cargo and perform logistics on the lunar surface. Its FLIP rover has demonstrated mobility and autonomous lunar surface operations.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"watchlist","layer":null,"total":53,"domain":"Robotics","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":1,"position":7,"progress":9,"firepower":1,"commercial":6,"deployment":8,"production":6,"technology":5},"edition":null,"segment":null}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-10-21","header":"HPE plans to send its Spaceborne Computer 4 to the Moon by year-end 2026.","outlet":"ZDNet Korea"},{"date":"2026-10-20","header":"HPE Spaceborne Computer 4 to launch AI compute to the Moon on Astrolab's FLIP rover","outlet":"The Register"},{"date":"2026-09-23","header":"Astrolab partners with Interstellar Mapping to hunt lunar water","outlet":"Payload"},{"date":"2026-07-20","header":"Griffin Mission One is planned to transport 10 payloads to the lunar south polar region on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.","outlet":"sorae"},{"date":"2026-06-27","header":"Astrolab is developing the CLV-1 crewed lunar vehicle from technology tested on its FLEX and FLIP rovers.","outlet":"Spaceflight Now"},{"date":"2026-06-27","header":"Astrolab designed FLIP to survive 100 hours of lunar night and CLV-1 to withstand 150 days of darkness.","outlet":"Spaceflight Now"}],"website":"https://astrolab.space","category":"Space · Planetary economy","categories":[{"name":"Field & outdoor","domain":"Robotics","parent":"Robotics · Systems"},{"name":"Landers, rovers & surface transport","domain":"Space","parent":"Space · Planetary economy"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-10-25T23:16:48.240585+00:00","facts_total":47,"positioning":"Astrolab is a US lunar-rover company (Hawthorne, founded 2020) whose FLEX rover architecture and FLIP precursor went from startup to Artemis-critical when NASA selected its CLV-1 as one of two crewed Lunar Terrain Vehicles (May 2026, ~$220M; team with Axiom Space and Interlune, delivered by Blue Moon Mk1, deployment target 2028). Its FLIP precursor passed thermal-vac and integrated testing but its launch was delayed. Revenue is estimated at 10-100m class (the CLV award recognized over performance).","sub_category":"Landers, rovers & surface transport","signals_total":45,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/astrolab","title":"Astrolab · space, Hawthorne, California, United States · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Astrolab develops lunar rovers, including FLEX and FLIP, for cargo, payload delivery and crew support on the Moon, including for NASA's Lunar Terrain Vehicle missions. Space 100 rank 71 (score 68) 45 signals and 47 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}