Interlune Corporation

Interlune Corporation, doing business as Interlune Corp, is a Seattle-based small business providing lunar resource extraction and processing technologies to federal agencies as a prime contractor on small-business set-aside and open research funding. The company specializes in comminution, beneficiation, and particle-size sorting systems for lunar regolith, rotary actuators for space robotics, and helium-3 isotope separation methods aligned with national security supply-chain resilience objectives. All thirteen recent awards are prime vehicle awards; the company does not serve as a subcontractor.

Customer concentration sits heavily with NASA's Shared Services Center, which has funded ten awards carrying $7.7 million in combined potential value (77% of the company's recent footprint). The Air Force Research Laboratory contributes the second-largest single award ($1.2 million for helium-3 extraction R&D supporting critical-materials supply-chain resilience). The National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy Office of Science round out the customer set, each with one award. The agency distribution tracks identically between award count and dollar-value rankings — no tension between volume and dollars.

Interlune's contract and grant portfolio breaks into three capability lines. SBIR and STTR Phase I and Phase II awards dominate the research footprint: a $1.25 million Air Force Research Laboratory Phase II contract (August 2025, completion March 2027) for helium-3 separation from liquid natural gas–derived helium-4 to strengthen defense supply-chain independence; a $6.89 million NASA Shared Services Center Phase III SBIR contract awarded March 2026 for "Prospect Moon," a lunar resource technology demonstration and prospecting mission building on prior regolith processing and in-situ resource utilization research; and a $150,000 STTR Phase I contract (June 2026, completion December 2026) for mass-optimized rotary actuators for scalable space robotics. Research grants under NASA's Flight Opportunities and Small Spacecraft Technology Program and Space Technology Program (CFDA 43.012) focus on lunar regolith comminution, beneficiation, and size-sorting technologies — including the "CRUMBLE" project ($348,008, April 2024) and "SCRUMBLE" project ($110,364, May 2025). An NSF SBIR Phase I grant ($246,028, completed June 2024) developed a rotating-paddle centrifuge-based regolith size-sorting system designed to be 10x smaller and 5x lighter than conventional vibratory sieves.

Activity has grown from one award in 2023 to six in 2025, with three awards issued year-to-date in 2026. Five awards carrying $8.4 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure representing 94% of the company's recent combined potential value. Interlune competes under Total Small Business set-asides on SBIR and STTR phases, with non-set-aside designations on the largest NASA grants and the AFRL helium-3 contract. Work is performed at the company's Seattle, Washington facility with firm fixed-price and project-grant terms across all awards.

Interlune Corporation's capabilities span research & development, IP development and innovation, spacecraft and launch engineering and operations, geology and mining expertise and experience, and international project and program management related to infrastructure and space transportation services, as well as broad industrial sector collaboration and cooperation.

The company's principals are leading experts in the commercial and civil space sector with decades of applicable 'hands-on' experience and heritage.

Interlune has unequaled capabilities, team, experience and proprietary assets to capture the opportunity of our generation - to build an in-space economy while addressing our insatiable demand for resource and energy.