Surface SpacecraftRovers, drones and hoppers

List of commercial surface spacecraft including rovers, hoppers, drones for Moon, Mars and asteroids.

Last updated: 2024-03-03. Entries: 44

Name Products & Services Category Service Type Field Status Oneliner Photo Logo
Astrobotic (CubeRover) CubeRover,
MoonRanger
Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Lunar Rover,
Moon
Development

CubeRover, an ultralight, rechargeable planetary rover developed by Astrobotic.

Astrobotic (CubeRover) Astrobotic (CubeRover)
Astrolab Venturi FLEX Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Lunar Rover,
Mars Rover
Development

Astrolab is pioneering new ways to explore and operate on distant planetary bodies. We’re singularly focused on designing, building, and operating a fleet of multi-purpose commercial planetary rovers to extend and enhance humanity’s presence in the solar system.

Astrolab Astrolab Venturi
Blastoff! (Spacelab) Lunar 1 Commercial Rover,
Commercial Lander
Commercial Rover,
Commercial Lunar Lander,
Space Entertainment
Lunar Rover Dormant

Blastoff! Corporation was a small aerospace company in Pasadena, California, that operated from 1999 to early 2001 as one of dozens of Idealab's incubator companies, created to capitalize on the public interest in space travel and exploration.

Canadensys Aerospace Corporation Commercial Rover Commercial Rover,
Hardware
Moon Development

Two different classes of small Canadian lunar science rovers – a nano-rover and a micro-rover.

Canadensys Aerospace Corporation Canadensys Aerospace Corporation
Ceres Robotics CR3 Rover Commercial Rover Commercial Rover,
Surface Habitats
Lunar Rover,
Moon
Early stage

We are designing, building, and testing efficient landers and robots that make living and working off-world feasible and affordable.

Ceres Robotics Ceres Robotics
Dereum Labs Jaguar 1 Commercial Rover,
ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining
Commercial Rover,
ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization),
In-Space Manufacturing
Moon Development

Jaguar-1 mission consists of carrying two rovers with a commercial payload to the Lunar surface.

Dereum Labs Dereum Labs
Dymon YAOKI Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Moon Development

YAOKI is the lunar rover that will contribute to lunar development. It is the smallest, lightweight, and high-strength rover that will be sent to the Moon several times in a short period of time. 

Dymon Dymon
Exobotics Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Lunar Rover,
Moon
Cancelled

Developing the world’s first modular roving platform, offering low-cost, high-performance solutions for lunar operation.

Exobotics Exobotics
Finite Space Commercial Rover,
In-Space Manufacturing
Commercial Rover,
ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization),
In-Space Manufacturing
- Early stage, ?

Optimizing material usage and manufacturing processes on extraterrestrial bodies to enable self-sustainable colonies with constant human presence.

Finite Space Finite Space
Four Point Autonomous Transport Platform (ATP) ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining,
Raw Resources & Utilities,
Commercial Rover
Space Mining,
Resources - Asteroid Mining,
Commercial Rover
Mining Development, Concept

FourPoint will use its Autonomous Transport Platform (ATP) for the transport and delivery of sorted and filtered materials on the Moon.

Four Point Four Point
Futura DRACO Surface Habitat Commercial Rover,
Space Construction Company,
Space Construction Equipment,
Robotic Arm,
Landing Pads
Space Construction Company Development

We are working to establish a self-sustaining space economy and make human life multi-planetary.

Futura
General Motors (GM) Lunar Vehicle Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Lunar Rover Concept

Lockheed Martin and General Motors are partnering to develop a new type of lunar vehicle for NASA to use during its upcoming Artemis missions to the moon.

General Motors General Motors (GM)
GITAI R1 Commercial Rover,
In-Space Manufacturing
Space Robotics,
Commercial Rover,
Robotic Arm,
Hardware
Robot Astronaut,
Lunar Rover
Development

GITAI is developing highly capable, safe, and reliable robots to help build and maintain satellites, space stations, lunar bases and cities on Mars.

GITAI GITAI
GMV Commercial Rover,
On-Orbit Servicing
Commercial Rover,
Space Robotics,
Software,
Hardware,
Robotic Arm
Lunar Rover,
Moon
Development GMV GMV
GURACORP Gura Terra Space Rover Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Lunar Rover Concept

The Terra is meant to be an extraterrestrial transportation and reconnaissance vehicle with a completely self-regulating life support system suitable for a crew of up to six members.

GURACORP GURACORP
Intuitive Machines Micro-Nova Commercial Rover Hopper,
Drone,
Moon Drone,
Space Drone
- Development

A small rocket-fueled drone, which will use its thrusters to hop across the lunar surface - then, for the 1st time ever, descend into pitch black craters.

Intuitive Machines Intuitive Machines
ispace Rover Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Lunar Rover,
Moon
Development

The smallest and lightest planetary rover in the world.

ispace ispace
Komatsu Commercial Rover Commercial Rover,
Space Construction Company,
Space Construction Equipment
- Concept, Development

Komatsu is developing an autonomous excavator to operate on the moon.

Komatsu Komatsu
Leidos Dynetics Dynetics Human Landing System Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Moon Development

Unveiled a prototype crewed lunar rover at the 2023 Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.

Leidos Dynetics
Lexus Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Lunar Rover,
Moon
Idea

Lexus imagines space vehicles for humans on the Moon.

Lexus Lexus
Lockheed Martin Lunar Mobility Vehicle (LMV) Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Moon Concept

General Motors and Lockheed announced in 2021 they were teaming up to work on a new lunar rover that would carry astronauts and their gear on the moon.

Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin
LunaCorp Commercial Rover Commercial Rover,
Advertising
Moon Dormant

Aimed to send its own, unmanned Lunar Rover to the moon in 1999, financed entirely by the private sector.

LunaCorp
Lunar Outpost MAPP,
HL-MAPP
Commercial Rover,
Surface Habitat,
ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining
Commercial Rover,
Surface Habitats,
ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)
Lunar Rover,
Moon
Development

Robotic vehicles designed to explore and investigate key resources and characteristics on lunar surfaces.

Lunar Outpost Lunar Outpost
Mawson Rovers Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Moon,
Lunar Rover
Development

Mawson Rovers designs and builds robotic vehicles to support sustainable human exploration of space. Developing robots that help with construction, maintenance and inspection of lunar facilities and infrastructure.

Mawson Rovers Mawson Rovers
Moog Raw Resources & Utilities,
Surface Vehicle
Space Mining,
Space Resources,
Lunar Excavator
Lunar Excavator,
Moon
Concept

In 2022, the Moog team developed a robotic lunar excavator concept based on NASA’s targets for size, scale, and duration of a potential mission.

Moog Moog
Moon Industry Commercial Rover,
ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining
Commercial Rover,
Space Mining
Lunar Rover Early stage

Space infrastructure systems from Earth for all planets. Discover our mining and transporting rovers. They can be used to mine on planets to produce water or to gather surface materials. The rovers can be deployed on earth as well.

Moon Industry Moon Industry
Neurospace HiveR,
CubeRover
Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Lunar Rover,
Moon
Development

We have set our goals on developing space technology enhanced by the capabilities of machine learning applications. With our latest development, we are setting our eyes on the Moon. Our redefinition of the concept of the Moon Rover will open up an unwalked path allowing new companies and ideas to set foot on our favorite satellite.

Neurospace Neurospace
Nissan Motor Co e-4ORCE Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Moon,
Lunar Rover
Concept

Unveiled a lunar rover prototype jointly developed with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) at its Nissan Futures event.

Nissan Motor Co Nissan Motor Co
Northrop Grumman Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research (SSPIDR) Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Lunar Rover Concept Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman
Origin Space M2 Lunar Rover ISRU, Raw Materials & Asteroid Mining,
Commercial Rover
Commercial Rover Lunar Rover,
Moon
Development

The M² Lunar Rover will have a 200kg payload carrying multispectral imaging, elemental detection, sample return, and other equipment for commercial exploration of lunar resources and verification of mining technology.

Origin Space
PTS (Planetary Transportation Systems) Audi Quattro Lunar Rover Commercial Rover Commercial Lunar Lander,
Commercial Rover
Moon,
Lunar Rover
Concept

Meet the Audi Lunar Quattro. the PTS exploration rover are able to deploy and operate a series of scientific and technological payloads on the Moon.

PTS PTS (Planetary Transportation Systems)
Puli Space Puli Lunar Rover Commercial Rover Commercial Rover,
ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization),
Resources - Asteroid Mining
Space Arks,
Moon,
Water,
Prospecting
Development

Demonstrate the operation and unique mobility capabilities of the Puli Lunar Rover.

Puli Space Puli Space
Redwire (Deep Space Systems) Commercial Rover,
Commercial Lander
Commercial Rover,
Hardware,
ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization),
Space Mining,
Commercial Lander
Lunar Rover,
Moon
Concept

In 2018, Deep Space Systems (now Redwire) was one of the nine companies selected for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.

Redwire Redwire (Deep Space Systems)
Space Applications Services LUVMI,
LUVMI-X
Commercial Rover Commercial Rover - Development

The Lunar Volatiles Mobile Instrumentation (LUVMI) rover family provides a smart, low mass, innovative, modular and extendable platform designed to accommodate payloads and provide payload mobility on the Moon.

Space Applications Services Space Applications Services
Spacebit Asagumo Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Lunar Rover,
Moon
Development

Spacebit Is A British Privately Held Company Developing Space Robotics Technology For Lunar And Planetary Missions.

Spacebit Spacebit
SpaceHopper SpaceHopper Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Hopper Development

Hopping Robot for Asteroid Exploration. Taking the Next Leap in Space Robotics. SpaceHopper: A legged robot for microgravity environments,

SpaceHopper SpaceHopper
STELLS MPR (Mobile Power Rover) Commercial Rover,
Space Utilities
Commercial Rover,
Power Beaming,
Resources - Energy
Lunar Rover,
Wireless Power Transfer
Development

MPR-1 Mobile Power Rover (MPR-1) is a medium size rover scheduled to launch in 2024 to the South Pole of the Moon and provide power to other missions.

STELLS STELLS
Team AngelicvM Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Moon Cancelled

Google Lunar XPRIZE team from Chile, to the surface of the Moon on Astrobotic’s first lunar mission.

Team AngelicvM Team AngelicvM
Team Indus Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Lunar Rover,
Moon
Development

10kg Micro-Rover platform.

Team Indus Team Indus
Teledyne Brown Engineering Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Moon Concept

Teledyne Brown Engineering announced that it is leading a team including Sierra Space and Nissan North America, to design the crewed Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) that will support future exploration on the moon.

Teledyne Brown Engineering
Tesla Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Moon,
Mars
Concept

Tesla Cybertruck on Mars: Elon Musk playfully ponders sending a pickup to the Red Planet.

Tesla
Toyota LUNAR CRUISER Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Lunar Rover Development

JAXA and Toyota signed a joint research agreement to work on a manned pressurized lunar rover last year, on June 13, 2019, with an expected launch date in the latter half of the 2020s.

Toyota Toyota
WeSpace Technologies Lunar Autonomously Flying Robotic Systems Commercial Rover Commercial Rover,
Hopper,
Drone,
Moon Drone
Hopper Development

The company aims to provide autonomous lunar hopper drones, which will deliver customer payloads to hard-to-reach regions of the moon.

WeSpace WeSpace Technologies
Xtend Design (Tomas Rousek) Luniaq Commercial Rover Commercial Rover Lunar Rover Concept

A Skoda Enyaq-inspired moon rover aptly called Luniaq. Announced during the Czech Space Week, the concept was presented in the largest virtual reality laboratory in Europe, the Virtuplex.

Xtend Design Xtend Design (Tomas Rousek)