{"city":"Seattle","name":"Interlune","slug":"interlune","facts":[{"date":"2028-01-01","type":"product_launch","value":"Starting deliveries of helium-3","source":"SpaceNews"},{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"product_launch","value":"Produced 99% pure helium-3 from domestic helium using cryogenic distillation","source":"Interlune"},{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"partnership","value":"Vermeer partnering with Interlune to build a lunar site-preparation tool","source":"Interlune"},{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"product_launch","value":"Mission-ready lunar excavation system supporting NASA base construction","source":"Interlune"},{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"product_launch","value":"Pure helium-3 produced from domestic helium using cryogenic distillation","source":"Interlune"},{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"product_launch","value":"2028","source":"Interlune"}],"peers":[],"stage":"Private","state":"Washington","aliases":["Interlune"],"country":"United States","domains":[{"why":"Interlune is developing systems to prospect for and extract helium-3 and other solar-wind volatiles from lunar regolith, including a NASA-contracted lunar extraction payload and in-situ processing capabilities.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"watchlist","layer":null,"total":51,"domain":"Space","scores":{"leverage":6,"position":4,"progress":9,"firepower":6,"commercial":4,"deployment":6,"production":2,"technology":4},"edition":null,"segment":null}],"founded":2020,"signals":[{"date":"2026-09-14","header":"Interlune targets 2028 for a mission-ready lunar excavation system supporting NASA base construction.","outlet":"Interlune"},{"date":"2026-09-14","header":"Interlune produced 99% pure helium-3 from domestic helium using cryogenic distillation.","outlet":"Interlune"},{"date":"2026-09-14","header":"Vermeer is partnering with Interlune to build a lunar site-preparation tool.","outlet":"Interlune"},{"date":"2026-07-30","header":"Sariah Fischer became a senior advisor to NASA’s deputy administrator.","outlet":"Payload"},{"date":"2026-05-18","header":"Astrolab disclosed the science payloads flying on its FLIP lunar rover mission.","outlet":"Payload"},{"date":"2026-05-18","header":"NASA Ames and Interlune will fly the METAL instrument on Astrolab’s FLIP rover.","outlet":"Astrolab"}],"website":"https://www.interlune.space","category":"Space · Planetary economy","categories":[{"name":"Resource extraction & processing","domain":"Space","parent":"Space · Planetary economy"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-09-22T22:06:40.55+00:00","facts_total":43,"positioning":"Interlune is a US lunar-resource company (led by ex-Blue Origin president Rob Meyerson) pursuing helium-3 harvesting for quantum-computing cooling (a $20M/kg pricing thesis), with named customers before flight (a DoE sample-delivery agreement) and a harvesting system in ground development (a NASA-partnered survey camera flying on Astrolab's FLIP, excavation tech with Vermeer). It is on the winning NASA CLV-1 team (May 2026), though it has no flight yet, and USGS astrogeologists compare the scale to a major terrestrial copper mine at parts-per-billion concentrations. It is pre-revenue.","sub_category":"Resource extraction & processing","signals_total":13,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/interlune","title":"Interlune · space, Seattle, Washington, United States · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Interlune is developing systems to prospect for and extract helium-3 and other solar-wind volatiles from lunar regolith, including a NASA-contracted lunar extraction payload and in-situ processing capabilities. Space watchlist (score 51) 13 signals and 43 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."}