Harvesting natural resources from space to benefit Earth and establish an in-space economy.
Created: 2024-01-10
Updated: 2025-09-06
Company - Interlune
Product/Service
- Classification
- Space Resources
- Category
- Space Resources
Raw Resources
ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)
Space Mining
Resources - Asteroid Mining
- Fields
- Helium-3
Beneficiation
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- Not announced
- Interlune has been operating in stealth mode for three years.
- Interlune’s goal is to develop a novel approach to extracting resources from the moon efficiently, cost-effectively, and responsibly, with the aim of creating a sustainable in-space economy.
Mining helium-3 on the Moon has been talked about forever—now a company will try, 2024-03-13.
- U.S. Department of Energy Buys Helium-3 from U.S. Space Resources Company Interlune in Historic Agreement.
- Interlune has pegged the commercial price of helium-3 at $20 million per kilogram. The price per liter would be significantly lower, however. Last year, a market report from the Edelgas Group said helium-3 was trading at around $2,500 per liter.
- Meyerson said Interlune’s calculations were based on a price of roughly $3,000 per liter, with roughly 7,400 liters in a kilogram under standard conditions.
- He also said Interlune will “probably return more than three liters” for its first delivery.
- Interlune said Maybell Quantum would be the startup’s first commercial customer. Under the terms of the purchase agreement, Interlune would provide thousands of liters of helium-3 for yearly delivery between 2029 and 2035. The helium-3 would be used in Maybell’s dilution refrigerators, which cool quantum computing devices to near absolute zero.
- Interlune also said it planned to deliver three liters of lunar helium-3 to the U.S. Department of Energy by April 2029. Under the terms of that agreement, the helium-3 would be purchased “at approximately today’s commercial market price,” the company said in a news release.
Status Comment
Fly instrument on Astrolab’s FLIP rover in December 2025 as part of Griffin Mission 1.
Notes
- Blue Origin’s chief architect lifts the veil on stealth moon startup at Pathfinder Awards, 2023-10-29
- Secretive moon startup led by ex-Blue Origin leaders raises new tranche of funding, 2024-02-02.
- Interlune Aims to Mine the Moon for Helium-3, 2024-03-25.
- A long-shot plan to mine the Moon comes a little closer to reality, 2025-06-09.
- Interlune to fly instrument on Astrolab’s FLIP rover, 2025-08-05.
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