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Lunar Outpost

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Lunar Outpost

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Lunar Outpost is redefining our relationship with the Moon and space by building the robotic infrastructure for future exploration and commerce. Our mission: make the Moon accessible, sustainable, and observed

fresh · evidence 9d ago 10 sources no confidence data
42.5/100
Venture signal
scored above 22% of unstaged peers stage unparsed
Outlook Stable
Why this score? ↓

What we have established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 Evidence sufficient to publish Yes

    The inclusion bar: two or more independent sourced evidence families. This profile is published and listed. It is a statement about how much evidence we hold, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Not established

    We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.

Funding
no round
2026-05-07
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings
Commercial
sales-led
homepage

Traction

No traction data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.

Current round

No fundraising data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.

Opportunity & risk

↗ Strongest signal: funding_recency (11% of the score).

↓ Scored on 1 of 4 components — funding_magnitude, adoption, developer had no computable metric.

7 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

Evaluation

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Platform score derived
43/100
Founder self-assessment claimed
11/100
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VIX signals 5 hard signals across 1 source ▾

The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake, and where one preceded a real raise, the measured lead.

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Technology No signals collected yet ▾
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Team & hiring No signals collected yet ▾
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Market & funding stage No signals collected yet ▾
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Evidence & scoring

Why this score? none_required ▾

VentureSignalScore 42.5/100 for lunar-outpost, composed from 1 of 4 components (emerging formula), discounted ×0.76 for 20% signal coverage

ComponentWeightNormalizedContribution
funding_recency 0.2 0.5598 0.112

Evidence this score rests on

  • funding.round.announced_on 2026-09-19 https

Narrative vs. reality No SEC filing found for this round

Reported narrative · Tier 2
Undisclosed
announced 2026-05-07 · source ↗
Filed reality · Tier 0 · SEC
No SEC Form D on record.

An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.

Financing events four different events, four different dates

A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.

Latest established financing date
2026-05-07
Money moved on or after
2026-05-07
Total reported by
not established
Basis
reported round

A reported round dated 2026-05-07 by its own source.

Federal contracts USAspending · public record

Realized federal award records for this company — a verifiable, dollar-denominated government signal. Recipient name matched with high confidence; figures are per-award totals from USAspending.gov.

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk low · 0.06

Gray-market attention, not quality. 14+ HN mentions (peak 32 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. ▲ 32 A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Outpost - 9 June 1959 2011-03-10 ↗

Raw observations 178 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
common_name Lunar Outpost observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.60
common_name Lunar Outpost observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.60
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community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2307951", "title": "A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Outpost - 9 June 1959", "points": 32, "created_at": "2011-03-10"} observed artifact ↗ 2011-03-10 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2307951", "title": "A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Outpost - 9 June 1959", "points": 32, "created_at": "2011-03-10"} observed artifact ↗ 2011-03-10 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2307951", "title": "A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Outpost - 9 June 1959", "points": 32, "created_at": "2011-03-10"} observed artifact ↗ 2011-03-10 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2307951", "title": "A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Outpost - 9 June 1959", "points": 32, "created_at": "2011-03-10"} observed artifact ↗ 2011-03-10 normalized 0.20
description Lunar Outpost raised 12 million to go send rovers to the moon and mine the moon. observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.60
description Lunar Outpost is redefining our relationship with the Moon and space by building the robotic infrastructure for future exploration and commerce. Our mission: make the Moon accessible, sustainable, and observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.70
domain www.lunaroutpost.com observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.95
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funding.round.source_url https://www.reuters.com/science/us-startup-lunar-outpost-raises-30-million-speed-moon-rover-development-2026-05-07/ observed https 2026-09-19 normalized 0.80
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