Water starts the cislunar economy.

Lynx Exploration finds, extracts, and delivers lunar water, the resource that enables human exploration of the planets

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The opportunity

Every kilogram launched from Earth’s surface is expensive. Water found on the Moon can become drinking water, radiation shielding, breathable oxygen, and hydrogen-oxygen rocket propellant, produced where it is needed instead of hauled up from Earth. Lynx Exploration is building the capability to supply it.

Explore

Lynx rovers map where water ice actually sits in permanently shadowed regions, and how much is there.

Extract

We recover ice from frozen regolith and process it into usable water.

Deliver

We supply water and propellant to landers, habitats, and spacecraft operating on and around the Moon.

Mission

Make water the first commodity of the lunar economy.

Space operations today depend on a single, costly supply line: everything comes up from Earth. In-situ lunar water breaks that dependence. It sustains crews, it splits into oxygen and hydrogen, and as propellant it lets rovers and spacecraft refuel instead of carrying every kilogram from Earth.

Our principles

Lynx Exploration exists to supply that water reliably and at commercial scale. We start with the hardest, most valuable question in lunar resources: where is the ice, and how much can be recovered? Answering it with ground-truth data is the foundation for everything that follows.

Prove it on the surface

Orbital data points to the ice; only surface prospecting confirms it.

Build for the environment

Hardware designed for extreme cold, darkness, and abrasive regolith from day one.

Sell what customers need

Water and propellant delivered where and when missions require them.

Technology

Engineered for the coldest places in the solar system.

The Moon’s most promising water deposits lie in permanently shadowed regions near the poles: craters that have not seen sunlight in billions of years, where temperatures stay cold enough to trap ice. They are also among the most demanding environments any machine can operate in.

Lynx rover

Our Lynx rover is designed to drive into shadowed terrain, characterize the ice, and return the data and samples that turn a resource estimate into a mining plan. This data feeds directly into extraction design: where to dig, how deep, and how much water each site can yield.

Cryogenic-rated

Materials and mechanisms rated for cryogenic temperatures.

Built for regolith

Compliant wheels built to cope with loose, abrasive regolith.

Volatile detection

Instruments that detect water ice and other volatiles and measure how they are distributed.

Roadmap

A staged path from prospecting to supply.

Each phase retires a specific risk before the next begins. Investors can see what each round of capital buys.

Phase 1: Prospect and Extract (2030)

Design, build, and qualify the Lynx rover. Fly it to a polar site and confirm ice location, concentration, and accessibility. Recover and process water from lunar regolith at pilot scale, proving the yield and energy cost per kilogram.

Phase 2: Produce (2031)

Scale extraction to sustained production of water, with an option to convert it to propellant.

Phase 3: Deliver (2032)

Supply water and propellant to customers on the surface and in lunar orbit under commercial contracts.

Team

Build the future of planetary exploration

We are a small team taking on tough problems to produce water that enables humanity’s exploration of the solar system: machines that run in permanent darkness at cryogenic temperatures, instruments that find ice under regolith, and systems that turn what they find into a product that enables the cislunar economy. Every engineer here owns real hardware and real decisions.

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Our team

The engineers, advisors and partners building Lynx Exploration.

Richard Lynch

CEO and Founder

Aerospace mission systems engineer with 33+ years on launch vehicles and spacecraft, from Lunar Prospector's translunar injection stage to deputy mission systems engineer on JWST and Mars Sample Return. Founder of Lynch Space.

Marie Bussman

Senior Systems Engineer

30 years in systems engineering and requirements management. Requirements Manager for Mars Sample Return's Capture, Containment and Return System; held several systems roles on the James Webb Space Telescope.

Ray Lundquist

Senior Systems Engineer

33+ years at NASA Goddard, most recently Webb's science instrument module (ISIM) Systems Manager. Systems engineer on Hubble servicing missions; earlier power and control systems on COBE, RXTE and TRMM.

James Jorgensen

Lynx Rover Architect · Archinautix

Licensed architect who works with multidisciplinary teams on spacecraft, aircraft, submersibles, vehicles and homes, always pushing the envelope of what's useful and possible.

Laszlo Szilagyi

Head of Manufacturing

Leads manufacturing for the Lynx rover: design engineering, fabrication, production planning and facility organization.

Greg Delory

Corporate Advisor

Space scientist and CEO of Heliospace with 28+ years on flight programs, from NASA Explorer missions and lunar and Mars orbiters to Europa Clipper and commercial lunar landers. PhD in Physics, UC Berkeley.

Seamus Anderson

Science Advisor

Planetary scientist at NASA Goddard developing mineral processing methods for in-situ resource utilization and studying planetary atmospheres through high-temperature experiments. PhD in Applied Geology, Curtin University; BS in Physics, University of Central Florida.

Stephen Lehtonen

Corporate Development · Kasvaa

Founder and Managing Partner of Kasvaa, with 20+ years driving business growth and building results-driven sales strategies. MBA, UCLA Anderson.

Gabriela Lozano

Corporate Development · Kasvaa

Finance executive and electrical engineer who owned P&Ls of $500M–$4B at Snap, Disney and 20th Century Fox. Now builds AI-native finance functions for early-stage companies. MBA, UCLA Anderson.

Ania Camplin, CPA

Financial Advisor · Richtr

Colorado CPA and Partner at Richtr Financial Studio, with 15+ years as a senior business strategist and fractional CFO for hundreds of innovation-based companies in the U.S. and abroad. MS in Mathematics, University of Lodz.

Mackenzie Smith

Legal Counsel · Bold Legal

Legal counsel through Bold Legal, Denver.

David Kendall

Legal Counsel · Bold Legal

Legal counsel through Bold Legal, Denver.

Mohamed Nassif

Lunar Trajectory Designer · Blacknight Space

Aerospace systems and business development engineer at Blacknight Space, specialising in trajectory and mission design, navigation and flight dynamics in the lunar and cislunar domain for high- and low-thrust systems.

What we are looking for

We’re always interested in exceptional people.

Engineers

Systems, attitude control, communication, electrical, guidance and navigation, mechanical, software (autonomous AI), thermal, and other engineers with flight or extreme-environment experience.

Scientists

Planetary scientists and instrument specialists focused on volatiles and lunar resources.

Builders

People who are comfortable with ambiguity and want to build a company, not just a subsystem.

Investors

Invest in the first lunar water supply chain.

Lynx Exploration is planning to raise funds soon to complete rover design and qualification. Request access to the investor deck to see the full technical plan, market model, and financials.

Why now

Government and commercial lunar programs are moving from flags and footprints to sustained presence. A sustained presence runs on water. The first company to prove a reliable supply sets the terms for the market. Talk with us about building the first lunar water supply chain.

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