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Interlune is accelerating its lunar resource extraction strategy by integrating its excavation technology onto Astrolab’s Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) rover platform, with joint hardware testing planned in Houston to validate autonomous operations in a lunar-like environment. CEO Rob Meyerson said reliable, self-directed mobility is a core requirement for Interlune’s helium-3 harvesting system and for future lunar infrastructure, positioning FLEX as a key element in the company’s operational architecture.
The initiative marks a concrete move from concept toward commercialization of Interlune’s system to mine industrial quantities of helium-3 and other resources from the Moon using fleets of rovers for both excavation and site preparation. Interlune, which has already partnered with Vermeer Corporation on high-volume continuous excavation technology and operates its Houston-based Interlune Research Lab to develop advanced lunar regolith simulants with partial funding from the Texas Space Commission, will use the upcoming tests to refine dust mitigation and hardware resilience, building on a prior agreement to fly a NASA-partnered multispectral camera on a FLEX mission to map helium-3 concentrations and inform future resource development and dual-use lunar infrastructure plans.