Lunar Forge

Building the infrastructure layer for lunar surface fission.
Launch the core. Build everything else on the Moon.

[Lunar Forge @LunarForgeSpace]

@DrPhiltill Thank you for sharing our work, @DrPhiltill. Your research has helped shape how the industry thinks about lunar regolith and surface infrastructure, so it means a great deal to see @LunarForgeSpace introduced to your community.

We’re just getting started. 🌒

[Lunar Forge @LunarForgeSpace]

Dr. Phil Metzger helped pioneer NASA’s Swamp Works and has spent decades advancing lunar surface technology.

Seeing him introduce @LunarForgeSpace to his community - and seeing the response - means an enormous amount.

Now we build. 🌒

[Phil Metzger @DrPhiltill]

A lunar construction company just came out of stealth mode: Lunar Forge.

Laser-sintering regolith into structural material, aimed at fission-reactor housing and shielding. Their first demo is targeted for 2027.

https://t.co/aRV1J5JXsg

[Phil Metzger @DrPhiltill]

A lunar construction company just came out of stealth mode: Lunar Forge.

Laser-sintering regolith into structural material, aimed at fission-reactor housing and shielding. Their first demo is targeted for 2027.

https://t.co/aRV1J5JXsg

[Alex Bell 🌘 @AlexBellSpace]

Why we’re building fission reactor housing on the Moon. 🌒

[Telemetry Today @TelemetryToday]

Lunar Forge is developing technology to turn lunar regolith into construction materials for Moon infrastructure, with an initial focus on building protective structures for future lunar nuclear reactors.

[Lunar Forge @LunarForgeSpace]

@payloadspace @NASA $2B for the reactor and spacecraft. Now imagine the cost of the structural infrastructure it needs on a surface - shielding, containment, thermal management, foundations.
That’s the part nobody’s pricing in. And it’s the part you can’t keep shipping from Earth.

[Lunar Forge @LunarForgeSpace]

That’s the gap @LunarForgeSpace was built to fill.

Full breakdown → https://t.co/qxVbGHY7Pn

[Lunar Forge @LunarForgeSpace]

The mass problem that nobody is solving - and without it, the lunar economy doesn’t exist.

https://t.co/qxVbGHY7Pn

[Lunar Forge @LunarForgeSpace]

But none of the FSP prime contractors are scoped to do it. The reactor teams are building the engine.

Nobody is building the garage.

[Lunar Forge @LunarForgeSpace]

NASA’s own studies identify in-situ manufacturing as the preferred approach. Build the shielding from lunar regolith, on the Moon.

It cuts the system mass in half. And the costs by 80-85%.

[Lunar Forge @LunarForgeSpace]

At $500K - $1.2M per kilogram to the lunar surface, that’s $5 - 12 billion in launch costs - just for the shielding of one reactor.

[Lunar Forge @LunarForgeSpace]

But here’s what nobody is talking about: the shielding and structural housing those reactors need weighs far more than the reactors themselves.

Radiation shielding alone for a single reactor: 8,600 - 20,580 kg.

[Lunar Forge @LunarForgeSpace]

NASA and DOE have committed to deploying fission reactors on the lunar surface by 2030. An executive order has made it a national priority.

Three prime contractor teams are building the reactors.

[Lunar Forge @LunarForgeSpace]

Lunar Forge is live 🔥 We just came out of stealth building the critical infrastructure fission surface power needs on the Moon. Reactors are funded. Landers are booked. We build what’s missing.

🌒 https://t.co/y13UIUPWnk

[Lunar Forge @LunarForgeSpace]

@payloadspace Proud to share that @PayloadSpace broke our story today. @LunarForgeSpace is building the infrastructure to manufacture reactor shielding and housing directly from lunar regolith - eliminating the biggest cost barrier to fission power on the lunar surface.

[Payload 🚀 @payloadspace]

NASA has set out an aggressive plan to build a Moon base, equipped with power, comms, mobility—you name it. But not much attention has been paid to where all of that stuff is going to live.

Enter: Lunar Forge.

Read more: https://t.co/nC6SkoLeUQ

[Lunar Forge @LunarForgeSpace]

We just came out of stealth. @LunarForgeSpace is building fission reactor infrastructure on the Moon - from lunar regolith.

First surface demo: 2027.

Full story from @payloadspace 👇

https://t.co/Q76GRbBxBC