Deeptech · Lunar Infrastructure
Frontier Space Lab is developing in-space refinery systems that turn lunar regolith into oxygen, propellant, and structural metal — the industrial foundation for a permanent presence on the Moon.
The Thesis
Every kilogram landed on the lunar surface carries Earth's launch economics with it. Frontier Space Lab replaces shipped mass with local production — turning regolith and power into oxygen, propellant, and structural metals on-site.
What We Do
Frontier Space Lab builds in-space refinery systems that extract, process, and convert materials where they are found. Instead of launching every kilogram of industrial mass from Earth, our systems use lunar regolith as the feedstock for oxygen, propellant, and metal production.
Autonomous systems collect and prepare lunar regolith directly from the surface.
Regolith is processed into usable industrial feedstock without Earth-shipped consumables.
Oxygen, propellant inputs, and structural metals are produced locally for lunar infrastructure.
Applications
Cast structures and regolith berms for radiation and micrometeorite protection.
Sintered, dust-free pads designed for repeated high-thrust descent.
Beams, plates, and pressure elements cast from local metal alloys.
Metal substrates and frames for scalable lunar power generation.
Feedstock launched from a shallow gravity well for in-space assembly.
Power-rich off-world sites for compute infrastructure and future rare-metals export.
Roadmap
Core reduction chemistry validated at bench scale.
Testing against high-fidelity lunar regolith simulants.
Continuous-feed reactor producing metal and oxygen.
Thermal-vacuum chamber trials under lunar conditions.
Designed for a first in-situ production run on the surface.
Capabilities
Frontier Space Lab is building the materials, process data, reactor architecture, and mission integration layer required to turn lunar resources into usable industrial output.
Regolith handling, oxide reduction, oxygen capture, and metal output workflows.
A growing database of simulant testing, alloy behavior, melt chemistry, and output characterization.
Hardware designed for high-temperature operation, automation, and eventual lunar deployment.
Systems built around launch constraints, surface operations, robotics, power, and customer infrastructure.
Partners · Research · Investment
Moondust in, oxygen and metal out. We're building the refinery for the lunar economy — and the partnerships to deploy it.
