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Interlune plans to harvest helium-3 from lunar regolith, a rare isotope with potential applications in quantum computing, medical imaging, and fusion energy.
ACTIVEInterlune plans to harvest Helium-3 from the lunar regolith, a rare isotope with potential applications in quantum computing, medical imaging, and fusion energy research.
Interlune is a lunar mining startup founded by former Blue Origin executives. The company is developing the technology and infrastructure to extract Helium-3 from the Moon's surface. Helium-3 is an extremely rare isotope on Earth but abundant in lunar regolith, deposited over billions of years by solar wind. The isotope has near-term applications in quantum computing sensors, neutron detection, and medical imaging (lung MRI), with long-term potential as a clean fusion fuel. Interlune plans to deploy robotic harvesters on the lunar surface to collect and return Helium-3 to Earth.
Rank 66 of 93 ranked companies. With the pillars we have not measured for this company filled at the 10th and 90th percentiles of the companies we did measure, and every other company held at its published total, the rank is likely between 57 and 75.
4 of 7 inputs measured · Medium confidence · 81% of applicable weight backed by data
Not measured: Market value, Reported revenue
Not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
A pillar score averages the company’s percentiles among the tracked companies with a value: relative standing, not a grade. Inputs measured 2026-10-13 (UTC) · methodology v6. Every input, its value and percentile · How it is computed
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Sources: Founded, Headquarters, CEO, Employees, Legal name
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1 private round on record. Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
Four-step lunar helium-3 harvesting system (excavate, sort, extract, separate); a full-scale excavator prototype built with Vermeer processes 100 metric tons of regolith per hour.
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Compiled Oct 13, 2026 from 8 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from.
Space federal awards
3 awards, $458K obligated
Awards with activity since Oct 1, 2018, as searched Sep 24, 2026. Awarded Jun 27, 2024 to Sep 16, 2025; most from NASA (3 awards)
Counts awards the government's own product code or programme title marks as space work, or the space research industry code; the satellite-telecoms industry code counts only together with a space agency, office or a space word in the award's own description. Obligated dollars, not ceilings; umbrella contracts (IDVs) are left out because their orders are counted one by one. Amounts as USAspending reported them on Sep 24, 2026.
Source: USAspending.gov recipient profile (all awards, not only space)
Latest award Sep 16, 2025
Latest space award
$110K from NASA
THE FLIGHT OPPORTUNITIES AND SMALL SPACECRAFT TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM PORTFOLIO SUPPORTS DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENT AND UNIQUE MISSIONS T...
Source: USAspending.gov award record
Awarded Sep 16, 2025
Form D notices
4 offerings reported on Form D
Latest filed Sep 15, 2026; first sale Aug 31, 2026
Each offering counts once: a later amendment (Form D/A) replaces its original. Form D names no round label and no investors. Filings for a merger or SPAC deal are left out.
Latest sourced round
SAFE: $5.0M
Reported on Form D filed Sep 15, 2026; the date shown is the first sale
Source: GeekWire Space
First sale Aug 31, 2026
Sourced rounds on record
4 rounds, $22.9M disclosed
Every round has a disclosed amount
Published rounds with a source link only, on the same rules as the funding tracker. Each round links the source that states its figure; amounts in other currencies are converted to dollars at the rate shown on the funding tracker.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
3 space awards, $458K obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Sep 16, 2025
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 13). Interlune: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 13, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/interlune
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "Interlune: Company dossier." Data as of October 13, 2026. Accessed October 13, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/interlune.
BibTeX
@misc{spacenexus_interlune_2026,
author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{Interlune}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/interlune}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/interlune},
urldate = {2026-10-13},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-13; each fact links its primary source}
}